Happy Hump Day Survey!

I'm liking all of the game ideas, especially She Blinded Me with Science and Facing East! Also enjoying to goofy jokes -- thanks for picking that up, PRG.

The game I came up with would be a hipster puzzle game based on Weezer's Undone (The Sweater Song). Like tetris but fitting together crap like PBR cans, plastic glasses, bird graphics, cardigans, etc. It's a race to un-knit the sweater.

Quintin_Stone wrote:

Gustav Holst's The Planets 1st movement: Mars, Bringer of War

The player character is a Roman warrior with enchanted gladii who has been told by Minerva that he can only find redemption by killing Mars, the Bringer of War.

I see what you did there. That's the plot of Dante's Inferno.

Clever girl.

Kanye West's POWER

The player is chased by phantoms of the past, the ruined lives of those less fortunate. The only way to proceed is to keep reaching higher, taking everything in sight in hopes that something can make you happy. Perhaps for a few hours, or only a few seconds, you'll find the greater power you're looking for. Something that lets you forget about the troubles that dog you at every turn; something that can push them into the distance for just the time being.

Cathadan wrote:

Kanye West's POWER

The player is chased by phantoms of the past, the ruined lives of those less fortunate. The only way to proceed is to keep reaching higher, taking everything in sight in hopes that something can make you happy. Perhaps for a few hours, or only a few seconds, you'll find the greater power you're looking for. Something that lets you forget about the troubles that dog you at every turn; something that can push them into the distance for just the time being.

So... Diablo?

Eh, I was thinking PacMan.

DiscoDriveby wrote:

It's Hump Day already!!

Come up with a game concept inspired by a song. It can be based on the lyrics, title, or music video.

Modest Mouse's Dashboard, one of my favorite videos ever. A game like this could be a Frog Fractions style head trip. Start out in a fishing game, then it expands into a sailing game, then a fish story game, then some type of adventure game, some type of rhythm action game...

Happy Hump Day!

You get to design a college course around studying a particular TV show. What is the course called?

The Wire: How Not to Live Your Life

Exploring Ethical Dilemmas in Farscape

Mythbusters 301. Experiment Design. 4CH. Lab required.

South Park as a response to the constant changes of American society, politics, and pop culture

I know it's a show full of toilet humor, but there's so much sociology you could grab out of that.

A Study of Trigun and Christian Themes of Temptation and Conviction would be another one.

Though those actually sound more like thesis papers than classes.

Neon Genesis Evangelion: A Study on Depression and how it can consume your world.

Oh that was a great episode of Community

Avatar: The Last Airbender: Teaching Adult Themes to a Child Audience

The Smurfs - Agriculture.

Study Gargamel's Smurf making techniques in relation to hunting Smurfs. Gained knowledge will be used in the production of Soylent Blue.

Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Intro to Film Critique

How to recognize different types of trees from quite a long way away.

(The actual class will be a bit longer.)

ccesarano wrote:

South Park as a response to the constant changes of American society, politics, and pop culture

South Park would make for a perfectly legitimate, worthwhile class. And I'm not the only one who thinks so.

I'd love to teach a class on the role of mystery and suspense in serial television, with a particular emphasis on the resolution of mystery and how it relates to viewer satisfaction, using shows like Lost, Twin Peaks, The X-Files, Battlestar Galactica, and Game of Thrones as part of the curriculum.

ClockworkHouse wrote:

I'd love to teach a class on the role of mystery and suspense in serial television, with a particular emphasis on the resolution of mystery and how it relates to viewer satisfaction, using shows like Lost, Twin Peaks, The X-Files, Battlestar Galactica, and Game of Thrones as part of the curriculum.

That's a really good one!

I think using similar shows (and adding in things like Mad Men) to talk about Ambiguity in Narrative would also be an amazing class.

Chuck 401 (it would be an advanced class): Exactly How Hot is Yvonne Strahovski?

Timey Wimey Ball: Fictional Depictions of Time Travel (and what they say about how people perceive the passage of time)

Lame double post, guess I have to come up with another one now

Science 101, brought to you by Look Around You

Firefly 101, how to kill a terrific show. Mandatory course for all Fox programming directors.

I actually took a course that this premise reminded me of while I was in college. There was an honors literature course where professors from the university were invited to present syllabi each year for literature studies focusing on whatever they wanted, so each section was almost a completely separate task from the others.

The section I enrolled in was Honors 203R, "The Modern Fantasy Epic, since Tolkien". It was taught by a law librarian. He had the course design down to the point where two weeks into the class he could start class by telling us all that today's class would finish 3 minutes early, and hit it dead on.

Course textbooks were The Hobbit, Sword of Shannara, Lord Foul's Bane, Dragons of Autumn Twilight, Pawn of Prophecy and Queen of Sorcery, and The Eye of the World. Any further reading of the various series involved was encouraged but not required.

garion333 wrote:

The Wire: How Not to Live Your Life

See I would have gone with The Wire : Econ 101

Grenn wrote:

Neon Genesis Evangelion: A Study on Depression and how it can consume your world.

Could also be a budgeting class...

Either Business 105: Holmes on Homes or Ethics 105: Holmes on Homes