Writing for Video Games

Catalog description

In this course, students will learn to create the two types of writing essential to contemporary video games: storytelling and technical writing. Students will learn the essential skills of plot, character, and dialogue writing, enabling them to create the stories that players experience in video games. Students will also learn the skills of usability, plain language, and explanation writing, which they will use to create instructions and documentation for video games. By the end of the course, students will have produced a video-game narrative, an introductory setup for a video game, and instructions on how to modify the video game using the platform used to create the game.