Topic: An unusual thread: An English major looks for connections.
Started by: Kintara
Started on: 1/6/2006
Board: Indie Game Design
On 1/6/2006 at 8:06pm, Kintara wrote:
An unusual thread: An English major looks for connections.
My class schedule for this upcoming semester is as follows:
Technical Writing
Non-Fiction Writing
Writing for Electronic Media
Studies in Composition, Rhetoric, and Language: Collaboration and Its Discontents (a class about "collaborative writing")
As I look at these classes, I can't help but find connections to roleplaying. Perhaps I'll even design a game as one of my projects.
I'm creating this thread sort of as a diary to show if anything I discuss in these classes leads to anything interesting as far as game design. At the very least, if I do design a game, these classes will help in the presentation of it.
Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Skepticism? Disdain?
On 1/6/2006 at 11:49pm, iain wrote:
Re: An unusual thread: An English major looks for connections.
Kintara wrote:
My class schedule for this upcoming semester is as follows:
Technical Writing
Non-Fiction Writing
Writing for Electronic Media
Could you clarify waht you mean by writing for electronic Media.
I can certainly see were connections might lie and wold be happy to help out with any enquiries into game design, though I am quite new to it myself. I would be especially interested if you looked at Roleplaying in Mainstream culture and maybe how to make the hobby more acceptable to society. It is after all a very social and enjoyable hobby but has some bad press attached to it.
I am at your service.
Cheers
Iain
On 1/7/2006 at 1:51am, Kintara wrote:
RE: Re: An unusual thread: An English major looks for connections.
Here's the course description for Writing for Electronic Media:
"This is a project-oriented course where Theory meets Praxis. Students will study and create original electronic media projects. You will complete both individual and team-based collaborative projects. Areas to be covered include creative and fact-based writing, multimedia composition and theory; hypertext; digital video, online journalism; multimedia scholarship; narrative theory; interactive narrative; information technology & creative practices; gaming; global media; and immersive environments. We will concentrate on the principles of writing for electronic media more so than learning new technology skills, though we will address a variety of technological options. The course requires creative and analytical engagement, and you will write what you care about."
On 1/7/2006 at 1:58am, Kintara wrote:
RE: Re: An unusual thread: An English major looks for connections.
Anyway, as for how mainstream culture intersects with roleplaying, that's certainly an area that I might explore. If I decide to discuss it in class, then I'll pretty much have to deal with that. :)
As I read that course description, it reminds me of the possibility for technology to seriously affect the means by which we game. I'm pretty sure that using a computer to supplement certain systems would allow for very intriguing possibilities. And that's leaving things like immersive environments and such aside for the moment,