Week Seven

Let's play some stories! Wait . . . how do we *play* a story?

 

Here are the steps (scroll down for the deets)
#1. Read chapter six and seven from Bryan Alexander’s book to get a good sense of game-based stories.
#2. Take quiz (Blackboard) over chapters six and seven
#3. Read about visual novels (below)
#4. Download and play/read [Text] A Summer Story (approx 15 minutes)
#5. Microblog about gameplay and storytelling in [Text] A Summer Story
#6. Respond to two of your fellow creators’ blogs (responding on the Blackboard discussion board post is fine).


#1. Read chapter six and seven from Bryan Alexander’s book to get a good sense of game-based stories.

Farmville

Fallout


#2. Take quiz (Blackboard) over chapters six and seven

Quiz Racoon


#3. Read article about ten good visual novels: http://longriverreview.com/blog/2014/top-ten-free-visual-novels-huh-what/

Screenshot from Katawa Shoujo

And look around The Visual Novel Database – https://vndb.org/
(NOTE: Adult content can be removed from searches)

Visual Novel Database


#4. Download and play/read [Text] A Summer Story (approx 15 minutes)

text a summer story


#5. Microblog about gameplay and storytelling in [Text] A Summer Story

Here are some questions that might help you start your microblog:
Is [Text] A Summer Story a game, a story, or both?
Does the gameplay enhance the storytelling?
What literary elements make the story entertaining?
What might Bryan Alexander make of this visual novel?


#6. Comment on your peers’ blogs

keep conversation going

#6.5 (OPTIONAL): Check out these newly-released MS-DOS games from the 90s!

Internet Archive releases 2,500 MS-DOS games so you can relive the ’90s

If you loved playing retro MS-DOS games from the ’90s like 3D Bomber, Zool and Alien Rampage, you can now replay those, and many more, with the latest update from Internet Archive. On Sunday, Internet Archive released 2,500 MS-DOS games that includes action, strategy and adventure titles.

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