The course-wide rules for late work, extensions, academic integrity and getting help.

Policies and support#

Late work and extensions#

Every workshop artefact (the weekly Death Notes entry, in particular) is due at the start of the session it feeds — late work loses the chance to be peer-reviewed that week, which is most of its value. The four weighted assessments (Boss Blueprint, Loadout Pitch, Death Notes, Final Project) accept a standard five-day extension for documented illness or hardship, no questions asked at the point of request; anything longer goes through the university’s standard extension process. Ask before the deadline, not after — a request the day a piece is due is treated as a late submission, not an extension.

Academic integrity#

Playing, reading about, or watching footage of a game you haven’t personally finished is expected and encouraged — this course is explicit that evidence can come from footage, timestamped. What isn’t acceptable is presenting someone else’s specific argument (a lecture’s reading of a boss, a classmate’s item description, a published analysis) as your own without naming it. Citing a source you disagree with and explaining why is a stronger submission than silently avoiding the source altogether.

Generative-AI tools may be used for research and drafting support, but the argument itself — which moment you chose, why it counts as legible or arbitrary failure, what the design decision actually was — has to be yours. A submission that reads as generic genre commentary, with no specific in-game moment a marker can check, is marked down regardless of how it was produced.

Getting help#

Ask in the session first — most workshop questions are faster to resolve with the room’s shared examples in front of everyone. Outside sessions, email the teacher who runs that week (listed on People) for anything specific to a submission, or the convenor for anything about the course’s shape: schedule, marking criteria, or a brief that seems to contradict itself.

Administration#

Enrolment and withdrawal follow the university’s standard census dates; this course sets no earlier internal deadline for either.

Special consideration (illness, hardship, or a circumstance affecting more than one assessment) goes through the university’s standard special-consideration process rather than a course-specific form — the convenor is notified automatically and will follow up about extensions directly.

Feedback on marking is available by email within two weeks of a result being released; a request to re-mark an assessment should name the specific criterion in dispute, not ask for a general second look.