Game Design rarely moves at the pace of news, but that doesn’t mean it can’t. Adapting a verb-centered design approach, this workshop demonstrates how a concise concept statement and a few hours with game making software can help you create interactive, toys and games quickly. Building on previously published work, the workshop demonstrations the difference between games (play with a goal), toys (play without an explicit goal) and interactives, showing how they can be created quickly.

(This workshop is bring your own device-BYOD, participants should install Construct 2 , Processing.org, Gamesalad, and Twine on their computers if they'd like to follow along.

LOCATION: Wolfson Building Room 1020