Learn about the video game design process and experiment with effective methods for balancing a game's mechanics. In this course, you'll enter the mind of a professional game designer. You'll learn how to design different types of games, understand the commonalities between them and learn what is at...
Learn about the tools, processes and platforms that allow video game assets to be created and assembled into a commercial game. Modern video games are incredibly complex multimedia productions involving still and motion graphics, code, audio, interface elements, narrative elements and much more.
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Learn about the evolution of video games from experts at The Strong National Museum of Play, the world's largest collection of video game materials. Video games as a medium go back more than 50 years to mainframe computers. Even the central design of video games can be traced back to the first games...
Learn the principles guiding humanitarian response to modern emergencies, and the challenges faced in the field today. From the Syrian refugee crisis to the West Africa Ebola outbreak, humanitarian emergencies have reached unprecedented dimensions and proportions. As need for humanitarian aid grows,...
An introduction to philosophy of mind, exploring consciousness, reality, AI, and more. The most in-depth philosophy course available online. What is the relationship between the mind and the body? Can computers think? Do we perceive reality as it is? Can there be a science of consciousness?
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Acquire a conceptual toolkit to navigate the high waters of cyberspace as you learn about the pains and gains of the net. Tangibility is being replaced by virtuality. Social media supplants the water cooler. MOOCs challenge the classroom.
This course is a colorful melange of ideas, debates, inventions...