Year of Study: 3rd YearPage 2 of 4
Students work from third year.

Traffic Jam is a chaotic task-juggling crossing guard game. As the crossing guard, you’ll have to stay on your toes to avoid any accidents! Navigate traffic-heavy crosswalks to help pedestrians cross. Using the tools at your disposal: you can clear obstacles, manage traffic, and if need be – carry pedestrians to safety! You’d better be quick with it – not everyone is willing to wait!

In this course students engage in a collaborative interdisciplinary artistic creation process with students from participating departments under the direction of an Artistic Director(s). The final project is typically presented in one of AMPD’s large performance facilities. Time flexibility on the part of students in this course is critical as class sessions are scheduled around the availability of a diverse team.

Explores the rules and procedures followed by players and games-more broadly and not limited to computer games-that are the building blocks that make up gameplay. Students look at the various aspects of game mechanics; what they are, how they can be formed, how they interact with each other, what values they transmit and topics relating to the application of game mechanics.