This week our guest lecturer will be Jeff Rodgers Provost of the South Florida Museum and Director of the Bishop Planetarium. Jeff will be presenting a brief introduction to basic Astrophysics and will be available for questions. He will also be able to present the parameters for our planet visualization excercise. I will post the details for this coming assignment on the blog by next weeks's class.
Writing Assignment before coming to class on Sept. 26: Please write your own take on the game design concept presented by table top game designer Ken Hite during our last class session. You are invited to mix any historical event (large or small) with a "nerd trope," i.e. zombies, vampires, aliens, monsters, etc. Post a synopsis of this alternate history on your course blog.
This week we will begin with a film clip from Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. In-class we will have several writing excercises involving wheres and whens. And during the second part of the class we will review the worlds built out of the photo sets that were the homework for this week. Next week we will have our first visiting lecturer when Dr. Doug Chismar comes to disuss issues in Space and Time.
Writing Assignment: For next week's class we will have our first writing assignment to feature the full sub-creation of an original and/or public domain world. In 350-500 words write a description of a world in which time or space don't operate as they do in our own world. What are the rules of space and time in this new world? How does one exist in this world are humans modified or are all the residents non-human? If there are humans here, how did they get there and what special rules must they obey? If there are more than one states of space or time how do we travel between them? What is the conceptual framework that unites this world?
