Day 4 Thur Feb 17th

Photoshop is $9.99 a month for students. The free alternative is called Gimp.



Photoshop Day 2

Setting Preferences

Photoshop --> Preferences --> General

Navigation

- Hand tool/Hand Rotate Tool

- Zoom tool

- Change Screen Mode

Color Picker

- Foreground/Background Color

- Eye-dropper tool

Drawing Tools

- Pencil/Paint Brush

—- Color Replacement Tool/Mixer Brush

- Paint Bucket/Gradient

- Erase/Magic Erase/Back Ground Eraser

- Sharpen/Blur/Smudge

—- Depth of Field - How much of the image is in focus in front of and behind the image

- Burn/Dodge/Sponge

Text Tools

- Horizontal Type Tool/Vertical Type Tool

- Horizontal Type Mask Tool/Vertical Type Mask Tool

Selection Tools (they define a workable area)

- Square/Circular Selection Tools

- Move Tool

- Laso/Polygon Laso/Magnetic Laso

— Tolerance

- Magic Wand/Quick Selection Tool

- Crop Tool

Layers

- Making Layers

--- New Layer

--- Cut/Copy/ Paste

--- Move Tool

--- Duplicate a Layer

- Delete Layer

- Layer Visibility

- Moving a Layer

- Opacity

- Modes

- Locking

 

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Current games we are playing:

- 10,000 - 1956, 2-10 players

- LCR - 1983, 3-12 player

- Yahtzee - 1956, 2-10 players

- Zombie Dice + Double Feature Expansion - 2010, 2-12 players
- Dungeon Roll - 2013, 1-4 players, PT 15 min +/-

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

Games you are learning the rules to (Due Tue Feb 26th) :

- Skulls - 1956, 2-10 players

- Ninja Dice - 2013, 2-5 players, PT 30 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 +/-PT 15 min +/-

Assignment #1

[Due Tue Feb 22nd beginning of class]

 

Part 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 180 dpi at size
* Use "guides" to designate the print area

Part 2
- Finish a 2.5 x 3.5” game card

Assignment #2

Read the class book!

chapter 1 & 2 [Due Tue Feb 22nd beginning of class]
 

Assignment #3

[Due Thur Feb 24th beginning of class] 

Pick a game you know well and like. Then create an alteration/expansion to the game by altering/adding rules and creating new exceptions. Write down your alterations in your Journal ready for presentation!

 

Project #1

[Due, last day of class]  

Design Journal

- Use the Journal during the semester to keep notes about the class, game rules, game ideas, definitions of game mechanic’s, game categories, game experiences and game research. This cane be done digitally if you prefer.