Spring 2027

Game Design II

Explore the expressive, social, and cultural impact of games as a medium through focused creation of a single capstone project. Develop an analog or digital game depending on interest and skill set. Designed to build skills in designing interactive games using an iterative approach that incorporates user testing and feedback. Focuses on design practices common to all games which can be applied by a game designer working in any medium, including sports, board games, computer games, and videogames. Opportunities to explore a wide variety of independent games as well as the platforms used to create them.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Jennifer SciannaKrista-Lee Malone

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.96 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=38 letter grades); Fall 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=27 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.99 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=40 letter grades).

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Prerequisites

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CURRIC 357 or graduate/professional standing

CURRIC 432

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Professors

Spring 2027

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2024: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=20 letter grades); Spring 2025: 3.98 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=20 letter grades).

Recent recorded grades — Fall 2020: 3.85 GPA, 94.1% A/AB (n=17 letter grades); Spring 2022: 3.83 GPA, 95.0% A/AB (n=20 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.98 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=20 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

JENNIFER SCIANNA is recorded teaching in Spring 2024, Spring 2025. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

KRISTA-LEE MALONE is recorded teaching in Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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SEM 001Classroom Instruction0 / 200
SEM 002Classroom Instruction0 / 200

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.96 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=38 letter grades); Fall 2025: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=27 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.99 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=40 letter grades).

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Grades

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Where this course fits relative to

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About this comparison

1280 courses over the same term, each with at least 30 recorded letter grades. Cross-listed courses count once. GPA is not a measure of difficulty or teaching quality. The typical course is the median by recorded grade count; tied values are not counted as lower. Grade counts describe course scale, not unique students or typical section size.

Descriptions compare GPA with this group’s average: at least 0.20 higher or lower; otherwise close to average. Section size uses median recorded enrollment: small up to 30, mid-sized 31–99, large 100+. Lectures and discussion/lab sections are described separately.

Sources & history

UW–Madison

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CURRIC 432 · Spring 2027

Game Design II

Recorded 2026-10-14
Raw records 
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    "credits_min": 3,
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Dataset & model

Recorded 2026-10-14

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Model outputs & technical records
Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B
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Model & dataset provenance 
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