Week 8 Studio: Choosing your artifact
Committing to the game or artifact you'll spend the rest of the semester recovering, with a tutor sanity-checking the choice
26 April 2027
Before the studio#
Come with two or three candidate artifacts, not just one — the studio time today is partly about ruling weaker candidates out.
In the studio#
For each candidate, you’ll check it against week 1’s definition, confirm at least one surviving source actually exists for it, and get a tutor’s read on whether it’s scoped realistically for the weeks remaining. You leave with one committed choice.
Afterwards#
This choice is what weeks 9–12 and the Recovery Exhibit are built on. Changing it later costs real time, so raise doubts today rather than in week 10.
The spec
What you bring to the session. Written so a reader can tell whether it has been met without asking you.
- your chosen artifact meets the week 1 lost/abandoned definition
- you have identified at least one surviving source for it (file, dump, or archive)
- a tutor has sanity-checked your choice before you leave studio
Teaching team
- Idris Fenn — tutor