Critical Let’s Play videos
These were videos created by student teams in a course about gaming culture (and everything wrong with it) at UW Bothell. Students were asked to focus on meaning-making but also have a consideration of inclusion in gaming while video editing a normal Let’s Play video. The embedded videos below are of playlists on YouTube so it might actually be a better viewing experience to click through to YouTube so you can see the playlist contents.
2023 – NieR: Replicant and Final Fantasy VII, open world games, Frost Punk, Cult of the Lamb, Minecraft, Lovecraftian horror, Rain World, Unpacking, Just Die Already, Chess, Life is Strange, Valorant and Phasmaphobia
2020 – GTA 5, NieR: Automata, Inside, Horizon Zero Dawn, Sakiro, Stardew Valley
Community-Based User Research
Here are a couple of really good user reports coming out of the user research class I taught in the Interactive Media Design program at UW Bothell.
Hybrid Multimedia Story
One project I had for an intro to interactive media course was for students to create a hybrid story that included both digital and physical media or artifacts. This is a video from one of those projects, Wizard Cats. 🙂