grab em while they're hot!

Come on in, get yer board games right here in the 4th floor faculty! So rare, there's only one copy of em in existence! Up for sale give back this grade consultation day april 22!

SW33333T!

Thanks to you all for participating in this little game-appreciation-by-game-making course =) Awesome turnout, plenty of awesome games made by you guys!

Just so you know, there won't be class sessions anymore as the game submission was the final project I need from you guys. Grades should be out by the end of this week or next week (daming hahalungkatin o.O), stay tuned for when you can get your stuff back.

One last submission

Oh, and just one more submission I'd like from you guys. This will be an INDIVIDUAL submission.

1) A review of  at least 2 other groups' games that you have played on the April 4 and 5 game dates. Talk about them in the same way we talked about games back in the 1st half of the term. What did you like about them, what did they implement in the game that worked, etc. Keep it short, at most 1 page per game.

2) Your own comments about your own group's game, especially after seeing it in action. What worked as intended, what came out good or bad. Again, keep this short, at most 1 page.

3) Your comments about your groupmates. Were they helpful or not? how helpful or NOT helpful were they? what tasks were they assigned, and did they do them? what tasks were they not assigned, but went and accomplished anyway? All your frustrations and/or praises about your groupmates, dump them all here. At most 1 page.

These don't have to be too formal, just let out whatever comes to mind related to the topic at hand.

Type it up into a word file, and e-mail them to jose.elegado@gmail.com by April 9.

April 4 and 5 locations

In case you haven't already heard, the locations for our game days April 4 and 5 are as follows:

April 4:
1:30-330, at MPH 2 (10th floor)
330-530, at room 1115

April 5:
730-1130, room 1115
1130-330, Basement 3
330-530, room 818

Everyone is encouraged to come in at any time during these times, both to submit your group's game and especially to play the games of the other groups, whether from your section or not. At the very least, stick around until I get to play your game myself.

Thanks once again to the guys who were able to reserve the spaces for our outdoor game groups!

Pack your towels, rubber shoes, water bottles, and Game Faces! Here's to an enjoyable two days with you guys!

For the groups setting up an Outdoor game for their final,

As mentioned, here be the contact details of the representatives for all groups planning an outdoor game as their final. please coordinate with each other so that we can all share the same basketball court/gym or basement come April 5.

AB124:
Adrenaline! (estrada, relos, gomez, buenaflor)
-09166524929, gomezgalilee@gmail.com
Bayo Gals (tagle, sibayan, manipis, solano steffi)
-09176177782, steffisolano@gmail.com
Keme Games (leones, pacaba, ramos, solano abby)

AB122:
Jutsi Fruit (caronan david, concepcion, diloy, delacruz, manalili)
-09355512929, decignsbydici@gmail.com
Da Main Boys! (fulo, ricardos, ferrer, asuncion, magdaraog)
-09268296760, kareninaferrer@yahoo.com

AB124:
Wala Pa Ser (castro, saludar, romero, medel)
-0906386543, wynsleymedel1@gmail.com
Eios D2 (agpalo, suniga, rico, cabungcal)
-09354484079, gerizarico@gmail.com

AB126:
Triple S (solema, sarmiento, sabido)

I may have missed some of the outdoor groups; feel free to add your group and your representative's contact details in the comments. Or if you changed your mind and are not making an outdoor game anymore, let it be known in the comments as well, so that I may update this list.

Second half of the term, GO!

Before anything else, make sure you have a group already. Anyone who's joining a new group or accepting new members (again, 4 people maximum), please update me on them asap.

Let me just clear up a few things here, at the same time post some guidelines for the projects as well.

There shall be 2 games that you'll be making for the end-term:

1) The classroom game. One where your group of will run/manage a game that The Whole Class (or at least half of them) will participate in. This one doesn't have to be too complicated, consider it an extra practice run for coming up with and running a game. Really, the only meter here is the reactions of the class (with a little discussion on what worked and what didn't).

Take turns running the classroom game, check with me for the schedules that we agreed upon. (some changes: due to College Week, I will be moving the schedules of some of the groups:

AB 121 TF 130-330: margarita and co. (mendez, salvador, saflor, balabad): March 11.

AB122 WS 930-1130: G force (solis, vera, roman, escobar):  March 12.

2) The Main Game Project. (A different game from the classroom game, by the way) The one due on April 4 & 5, and will be played by your classmates on said dates. For this one, I'd suggest just going all out. Don't worry too much about the results or whether you think you know nothing about making games, just go Make Something! (and of course feel free to consult with me in the faculty room <thursdays are a good free day> if you have any questions.)

The meter for grading here is The Rulebook: if people can understand it, and therefore play your game with no confusion, it gets a high score. Naturally, a game with vague, hard-to-follow rules, or rules that result in a broken mess (ex: only one side ever wins, and the players can see it all coming a mile away), get a crap score.

The artistic level of all the parts of the game (concept, cards and/or minifigures, how well these relate to the concept. Also the "that looks like a cool game" factor of your packaging or rulebook) adds bonus points as well.

Ah, before I forget: by week 10 (March 21 and 22), I will be asking for a Progress Report on your games. An initial draft of your rulebook, some notes on whether these rules worked or not, maybe a second draft of your rulebook, any concept fixes or changes that you made, any initial artist pieces as well. All these, as a powerpoint file or a PDF document.

I hope that clears up things. if you have any questions, bug me on 09999427146 as well.

Good Luck, and Happy Game Making!

Hard to believe this still needs to be said, but

To Reference Something On the Internet is to use an idea that someone else has come up with to support Your Own Idea. (ex: archimedes has discovered that 1+1 =2! Based on this, I theorize therefore that 1+1+1+1 = 4!)

It is NOT using their written work word-per-word and submitting it as your own. (ex: I has discovered that 1+1 = 2!)

COPYPASTE-ING YOUR HOMEWORKS FROM THE INTERNET IS BAD!

WHY IS IT BAD? BECAUSE YOU LEARN NOTHING!

And do recall that you're in school because you want to learn things?

It won't be on my conscience if you leave APC with nothing new in your heads but ctrl-c ctrl-v.



(The fact that even minor instances of copypasting will render your papers burned in a bonfire is just an unfortunate side effect)

(I don't care either if I catch em or not, the grade isn't the result we're really after here.)


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Oh, and congrats to the few and the proud who got themselves a 4 on the midterm paper!