Welcome to CMS.301 !

Welcome to CMS.301 - Game Design Methods. This course teaches basic design methodology, design research, constructive design criticism and iterative design methods, with an emphasis on fast prototyping using non-digital methods. It also covers design discussion, critique, and analysis of game design. The games you create in this course will be board games prototypes or paper interpretations of video games; there is no programming in this course.

Most of the projects in this course are group projects; there are only a few individual assignments.

Course Syllabus Take a look at our course syllabus to see topics by week; we will go into greater depth about the structure of the course at our first meeting.

Modules: In general, modules will come on line weekly; there will be a module for each week's work but those modules may not be available until after the Thursday lecture.

Lectures are in E25-117; first class will be held there.