CUNY Academic Commons | Ethan Ham | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/ethanham/activity/ Activity feed for Ethan Ham. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 f273ed79677a5332063cc33a69d5cb3f Ethan Ham started the topic A tool for teaching game making in the forum CUNY Games Network http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/games-teaching-and-learning/forum/topic/a-tool-for-teaching-game-making/ Fri, 16 Jan 2015 15:40:00 -0500 For many years I struggled to teach my students how to make the leap from designing tabletop games to designing video games. In particular, students without a programming background would consistently have problems defining a video game design as a series of concrete steps that do not leave gaping holes in the game algorithms.

Then one semester I…[Read more]

]]> bf1da19a411d4bba5ab4e0e6f72599d8 Ethan Ham replied to the topic Conway's Game of Life in the forum CUNY Games Network http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=36597 Tue, 09 Dec 2014 20:57:44 -0500 Oops, try this link: Conway’s Game of Life

]]> 32753e128e6a6ff79cd791690866d5a2 Ethan Ham started the topic Conway's Game of Life in the forum CUNY Games Network http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/games-teaching-and-learning/forum/topic/conways-game-of-life/ Tue, 09 Dec 2014 16:30:28 -0500 If you use Conway’s Game of Life in your class, you might want to check out the version I just added to my website.

Most browser-based version of the game are in Java–which is a problem for my classes because the workstations all have it disabled. The version on my site is all in Javascript, so it should run more easily on most machines (though…[Read more]

]]> 5d504c7c0fa112dd4561f9b3ea4e3f66 Ethan Ham replied to the topic My forthcoming game book in the forum CUNY Games Network http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=36582 Tue, 09 Dec 2014 16:21:01 -0500 Robert,

I’d be happy to get a copy to you–it should be sometime in March. I’ll put you on my “needs a copy” list, but feel free to give me a reminder email (eham@ccny.cuny.edu) when it gets closer to the book’s launch.

I like Game Design Workshop (Fullerton’s book), but I think it is a bit misnamed. I see it as being more about producing games…[Read more]

]]> fffa67368108132b0bbb667bb17cf63d Ethan Ham started the topic My forthcoming game book in the forum CUNY Games Network http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/games-teaching-and-learning/forum/topic/my-forthcoming-game-book/ Mon, 01 Dec 2014 20:09:15 -0500 I just wanted to share that I have a book coming out in March from Focal Press. It’s called Tabletop Game Design for Video Game Designers. It’s intended as a textbook for introducing college students to game design & development. The publisher isn’t taking orders for examination copies yet, but I’ll let everyone know when they are. The book’s…[Read more]

]]> eee7ff0d42058599d939fabebcfca77f Ethan Ham joined the group CUNY Games Network https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/313125/ Mon, 01 Dec 2014 19:59:57 -0500 ca4e74df2ecd40210c37ca476d06bbe1 Ethan Ham became a registered member https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/313123/ Mon, 01 Dec 2014 19:53:43 -0500