We’re going to get hyphy on, with, and with regards to computer games. That’s right, you’re a programmer now; a developer. C# ain’t shit. You’re the man. Crack that bloomsbury introduction to philosophy of computation, score some meat broth, and dwindle away the hours of your crippling long covid with me — programming simple games in Unity.

We’ll talk shop about games by Kara Stone, Jose Sanchez, and Jason Rohrer and try to figure out what the fuck combinatorics are. Hell, we may even try to beat that zoombinis pizza level. Mensas only.

Basically we’re going to connect a PureData synth to Unity to link up Sanchez’s polyomino workflow (it won’t look this good) to a note generator and if we’re cool enough (we’re not) we’ll code it up to react procedurally to its own topology.

This course is especially designed for people who have never even seen a computer before. Come chill. I’ll be too afraid to make out with you, but I will make you better at whatever it is that you think that you are or are not, particularly if that is — or is with regard to — game design in Unity.

• Learn game design skills in Unity 3D.
• Ask and discuss how real-time production can fit into your design workflow.
• Play indie games with the homies.
• Acquire and learn a template/workflow for procedural world building in unity.

Week 1: Unity intro (interface, C#, real-time production, learning resources) & discuss k stone games

Week 2: Design/theory background + Polyomino workflow 1 & discuss j sanchez games

Week 3: PureData synth + OSC to Unity & discuss j rohrer games

Week 4: Polyomino workflow + Synth; webgl build & discuss next steps + some more design theory

Kara Stone, Plethora Project, Jason Roher, Jose Sanchez

Will Hallett is an artist and designer. He works on artistic and aesthetic practices and their relation to contemporary academic research with interests in queerness, language, artificial intelligence, and design theory. Will has previously taught computational design courses at Fordham University and at the Estonian Academy of Arts. He is an alumni of the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU and has written for Triple Ampersand Journal and the Journal of Psychoanalysis, Culture, and Society.

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