Welcome Day 1

Intro to the class

*What is this class about?
*Syllabus
*What kind of games are we making?
*What do you need for the class?

• Downloadable Book on Amazon
• Journal / Sketchbook
• A Board Game

How to use a Mac

Turning on the Mac
- Login
- Restart
- Shutdown

The Finder (navigating the Mac)
- Loging In
- The Desktop
- Main Hard Drive
- Applications
- the Dock

- Creating a New Folder

- Deleting Files & Folders
-- Emptying the Trash

- Cut/Copy/Past
- Network Drive - lab-drive.local

USB Thumbdrives
- Where to plug it in
- Ejecting your drive

Web Browsers on the Mac
- Safari
- Chrome




Understand and Discuss Games

- What are the basics: # of players, Game Duartion, Difficulty, Age Group, Year Created?

- What is the Theme?

- What are the Game Mechanics?

- What are the Roles players play?

- What Category does it fit into?

- What are the Exceptions
- Describe your Experience playing the game ?

Dice Games

Todays games:

- Yahtzee - 1956, 2-10 players, PT 30 min +/-

- LCR - 1983, 3-12 players, PT 20 min +/-

- 10,000 - rules - year ???, 2-8 players, PT 45min +/-

- Skulls - 1981, 2-8 players, PT 15 min +/-

Tomorrow & Thursdays games: (make yourself familiar with the games tonight!)

- Dungeon Roll - 2013, 1-4 players, PT 15 min +/-

- Martian Dice - 2011, 2-12 players, PT 10 min +/-

- Ninja Dice - 2013, 2-5 players, PT 30 min +/-

- Zombie Dice + Double Feature Expansion - 2010, 2-12 players, PT 15 min +/-

- Catan Dice - 2007, 1-4 players, PT 15 min +/-

- Bowling Dice - 1985?, 1-10 players, PT 10 min +/-

- Poker Dice - year ???, 2-12 players, PT 10 min +/-

Learning the Rules:
Each night you will be expected to learn the rules for the games we will be playing the following day. Keep notes in your journal about how to ply the game and any difficulties you had understanding the rules.


Rules and  how to game play can be found on youtube:





 



Intro to Photoshop

Free Photoshop
- Fire Alpaca & the Gimp


Photoshop Basics 1
- Starting the Program / Quit

Whats Where?

Hot Keys

- Opening a file
-- Browse in Bridge or Mini Bridge
- Save / Save As a file
- Windows
- File --> New


* Resoultion
72 dpi traditional screen resolution
180 dpi lowest printing resolution
300 dpi + good printing resolution
600 dpi + high resolution printing


* File Types
- File Types
---- Photoshop = .PSD = working file, the one you keep forever

-- End Product Files
---- JPEG = .JPG = web and email (Flickr) file
---- GIFF = .GIF = web file
---- TIFF = .TIF = full quality print file
--- RAW = .RAW = raw camera data uncompressed file
---- Portable Document File = .PDF = compressed print file


Setting Preferences
Photoshop --> Preferences --> General

View
- Rulers, Grids & Guides
- Show
- Snap


Laying out a design in Photoshop
before Photoshop
1) paper size
2) single or multiple designs on the page?

in Photoshop
3) size and resolution
4) define print area 
* Offset press - requires cut lines, a bleed and image area to fit within the paper size (print on anything thats flat)
* Laser Printer -  1/4",1/4",1/4", 3/8th"
-- standard sizes 8.5x11",8.5x14", 11x17"
* Inkjet printer -  1/4",1/4",1/4", 3/8th"
-- standard sizes 8.5x11",8.5x14", 11x17", 19" wide, 24" wide, 36" wide, 42" wide
5) Define the Middle
6) save as a template file named appropriately as a .psd 
ex LP_cover_Template.psd


Walk Through. Creating 1.5"x2" mini cards on an 8.5"x11" piece of paper.


Assignment #1:
create a template for the following list:
- 11"x17" Game Board
- 8.5"x11" Pamphlet Page
- 2.5"x3.5" Cards on an 8.5"x11" piece of paper 
- 2"x2" Card on an 8.5"x11" piece of paper 

* Resolution should be 300 dpi at size
* Use "guides" to designate the print area



Work on Assignment