How Games Tell Stories (and What We Learn From Them)

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How are game narratives designed, how they are experienced, and what do they do? In this course we consider a wide variety of games from a wide variety of game forms and genres: text-based and visual novels, learning games and casual games, indie and triple-A. You will write about games and you will create your own simple prototypes and playable essays. Throughout the process of playing, studying, writing about, and creating games, we will work together to discover what we learn from games, and how they change us. The course will involve writing workshops and exercises in which you learn to use basic code on interactive writing platforms and tools such as Twine, Inky, Inklewriter, or Inform. This course requires no coding experience.