Give a short paragraph summary of your story that suggests main themes, characters and action, and teases viewers to learn more. Think about using a hook or mystery to entice your reader. Post the URL for your Final Project. Finished stories may be feature during New Media Night!! Add a relevant featured image that you […]
STORY CHARACTER ARC By this point you should have your story mostly drafted and the plot points clear. Now comes a robust revision in which you align your character development to the plot points. At each plot point your character faces decisions that will change them. They must grow, do things they wouldn’t do, learn,
STORY ROUGH DRAFT 3 Your main goal is to finish adding content to your story in its final structure form. Post Story URL –and check in another browser to make sure it works. Update the outline below if there are any changes or additions to your story structure. If not, repost your list. See Story
STORY ROUGH DRAFT 2 Your main goal is to add more content to your story in its final structure form. You should aim to be at least 2/3 done with your materials. Post Story URL –and check in another browser to make sure it works. As you develop your story, note beside each list item
STORY ROUGH DRAFT This draft should have more than half of your story complete, plus significant media–maps, songs, audio, images etc—that give visual and/or interactive dimension to your story. Again, for this assignment QUANTITY matters over QUALITY–You can work on revisions after you get your content down and get some feedback. Your task is to
STORY FIRST ROUGH DRAFT DUE MONDAY AFTER BREAK IN CLASS:No formal Task or post is due, but you should have some of your story content into a final story form to show in class Monday after break. DUE FRIDAY AFYER BREAK—FORMAT: Pick a format for your story and begin loading your World
Story/Game Maps One of World Anvil’s most powerful features in its map tool. You will need a map image to begin using it, but with an image, or a series of images, you can create powerful interactive maps. Whether you are making a game, an interactive story, or a text story (like Tolkein’s World, or
Series of Scenes Use the scene you created in Task 4 and updated in class as well as the class feedback you got on the scene. Create at least 3 other scenes, so you have 4 scenes total. Each scene should build on the previous scene and create a character arc via action. This means
Review scene for your classmates as follows Read scene Give emotional feedback as you go (haha, what was that? yikes, etc), so they know which parts had an effect Ask questions about information you need but don’t yet have; then tell writer if the info was need to know could learn later incidental Does this
Getting Creative with Characters Review The Kind of Heroes We Need and then consider if your protagonist is a conventional or typical character. While archetypes do reflect common human experiences, in a time of transition, we may need new types of characters and protagonists. Perhaps the activist working against the status quo is the
Continue working in World Anvil in the following ways: Finish the Meta sections: “Scene” and “People” Create one Template article for your world from the list of Templates under the WORLD tab. Choose one of the following: Use the Style button (bottom left) to set Theme & World Cover; you can also set Global Cover
Consider some of the Origin stories we discussed in class, or that you may have researched or encountered in stories, films or games. These stories create and enable (and also limit) whole large-scale “worlds” that we inhabit–often unconsciously accepting their premises. Considering these, you can see how powerful stories are , and how generative. Next
Below are a few sample Game Design Documents from well known games. Grand Theft Auto Fallout Silent Hill
Review Game Design Document Using the description of a premise from John Truby’s The Anatomy of Story, update your game “premise.” This should be a dense, concise single sentence that capture all the key elements of your game narrative. Review World Building, esp the “three main rules” on p 11. Then brainstorm, take notes, draw, sketch,
WHAT IS THE PREMISE? The premise is your story stated in one sentence. It is the simplest combination of character and plot and typically consists of some event that starts the action, some sense of the main character, and some sense of the outcome of the story. Some examples: The Godfather : The youngest son
No post is required this week. Please make these additions directly to your design document (or a text file you will use to copy/paste into that document.) This week’s task is scene building(the real skill of storytelling) , basically to create one or two really detailed scenes from your game. I would skip the opening
No post is required this week. Please make these additions directly to your design document (or a text file you will use to copy/paste into that document.) This week’s task continues your work on your player/protagonist, this time considering the abilities that can help them to make progress, and then creating levels needed for your
No post is required this week. Please make these additions directly to your design document (or a text file you will use to copy/paste into that document.) This week’s task is to work on developing your main player character and any critical NPC characters. For your player/protagonist character, remember that a good character arc include
Review Game Design Document Based on your work this far, update your game summary or “premise” Then craft the following section in the Game Design Document: Game Questions p8 Game Story p 9 Game Inspiration p 10-13–this will include (low res images from ) model games (consider your early assignment in this class to share
Review Game Design Document Come up with an idea for a game via class brainstorm and discussion In Game Overview come up with he following: Game Title Game summary–a first version of this that will allow you to start growing your idea Game purpose–what will it provide to the player & how will it all
The Game Design Process There is no such thing as a “standard” game design document, and for good reason. It would be insane to try to fit an interactive fiction adventure and a Tetris-like puzzle into the same mold. However, all forms of entertainment do have a certain number of characteristics in common, and over
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If you’re like most writers, you’re thrilled. You’ve just poured your heart and soul into this and you want some sweet affirmation after all your hard work. So as you share your work, you ask a seemingly innocent question: “Is it good?” This question may seem harmless enough. But this is a dangerous question, and
Part A: How to give feedback 1. The shit sandwich The shit sandwich[i] is the most important tool you need to know when giving criticism. Praise – Critique – Praise. This works anywhere: office reviews, school reports, conversations with your lover, anywhere. First, start by saying something positive. Anything positive. You can’t make something up (that
Add the following to this post: Your Model Twine story–a story that gives you some basic structure, techniques or ideas for your own story.You can use stories I have recommended or find a story here: itch.io, witch.io, best twine games A image of your expanded story map A proofing copy of your expanded story A
This is a preliminary snapshot of Project 1–your Twine story. In your post include the following: working title of your story Image of your story Map Image of your most complex passage text from your Proofing copy–insert it using the “Code” block post Ttile: Task 2–yourname; category: Task 2
Due: Friday First draft; next Friday final version Interview your classmate and create a simple bio post for them using interview data. Questions may include: background, family, culture, hometown, interests, hobbies, reasons for majoring in New Media, Career goals, etc Your goal is to ask enough questions to create a kind of story. To do
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