Name: Cumbersome Coding: Using creative constraints to break from (ecologically questionable) design conventions
Start: 2025-05-15T15:30:00+0200
End: 2025-05-15T17:00:00+0200

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Thursday May 15, 2025 15:30 - 17:00 CEST

Workshop Room 2

Creative constraints can be a great tool if you want to get out of a design rut. In this workshop, we'll have a look at game design conventions that would benefit from fresh ideas -- especially those that, from an ecological perspective, may be a bit questionable. To come up with alternatives to such conventions, we'll be coding some prototypes using the p5 library for JavaScript -- and we'll intentionally make our lives harder by self-imposing coding constraints we'll have to work around!

AUDIENCE:
This workshop is for people with an interest in designing videogames with an ecological perspective in mind. It's for people curious about experimental coding and wacky prototyping methods, mainly as a tool to break away from established design conventions
REQUIREMENTS:
Participants need some coding experience. Being a pro is not a requirement, but you need to be comfortable enough with writing code in JavaScript/p5 that you can use it to create a quick prototype without too much help and code around self-imposed constraints. The workshop won't teach you to code!
BRING:
- Bring your own laptop :)
- You need a browser that can run p5 without issue
- Having a p5 account will make things slightly easier, but we can work around it if you don't have one

For this workshop online registration is not required to attend. The spots will be assigned on a first-come first-served basis, so make sure to be at the workshop location at least 10 minutes before the starting time.

Artists

Saskia Joanna Rauhut

Joanna is a creator of games, digital toys, and other playful media. She is interested in the many roles games can play in society. Lately, she has been researching how potentially harmful ideas can unintentionally find their ways into the games we design through patterns and mechanics... Read More →

Thursday May 15, 2025 15:30 - 17:00 CEST
Workshop Room 2 Gerichtstraße 35, 13347 Berlin, Germany

Workshop, coding

A MAZE. / Berlin 2025

Saskia Joanna Rauhut

Attendees (1)

A MAZE. / Berlin 2025

Saskia Joanna Rauhut

Attendees (1)

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