Week #1 Class intro

My name is Sergio Orbegoso and I am a senior at Texas Tech. This is third year at Tech and I like to think of myself as a creative person. The main reason I chose to take CMI 3377, is because I love being able to be creative. I truly believe taking a class where there is not much math or reading to do, will be good for me. Being able to focus on designing will be very exciting and new for me. I look forward to taking a class that is different and very hands-on. I'm really interested in learning how good of a designer I can be and find out just how creative I really am. Aside from that, I also want to learn more about how play is in everything we do. The author of the textbook explains that play is in work, sports, and in just about everything (Sicart 3). Since the pandemic started, I began playing a lot of video games on Xbox. I tend to play a lot of games from the shooter genre. Sometimes I play fighting-type games or horror games as well.  From time to time, I play card games. Some days I'll play Uno or maybe even BlackJack. Not all forms of play are cheerful because some can be dangerous and come with risks. BlackJack is one of those games because there is obviously risk but someone could break the rules or be tempted to break the context (Sicart 9). I also enjoy playing the occasional folk game, like beer pong or beer die. Recently though, a group of friends and I played Spyfall. It's basically a phone game and the group is suppose to find out who the spy is before the time runs out. Every person gets on their phone and everyone is assigned a role in a specific location, but one person is assigned as the spy. What we did, while playing, was tweaks some rules and added a few of our own elements. Rules are not completely set in stone and there is much more flexibility when looking at the rules of a game, which made the game very fun for us. It's extremely great to see that its okay to change and manipulate certain aspects of something that you're playing (Sicart 8,9). I enjoy most games and there are even some games that I could play for hours. I really look forward to see what this class is all about and I hope I learn new concepts, that I never really knew about designing/creating.