Read: Divergent Streams, Rettberg
Blog: TBA
IN-CLASS TOPICS/ACTIVITIES:
Final Project Proposals > set up meeting
ELD Entry feedback
Final ELD Entry – guidelines below…
Pry > 2 part weekly readings and discussion.
- purchase on iOS or check out an iPad for a few hours each week
- you need earbuds
- take notes about the form, the navigation, the story and how you experience interpret the story
- blog each week about your reading
Divergent Streams > 3D Fiction and Poetry
- Locative Fiction
- Interactive Installations
- AR and VR
Text Rain, by Camille Utterback
Perpetual Nomads
ELD Entries:
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Formality – use the terms “player”, “reader”, “user” (avoid “you”and “we”)
Discuss action and events in the work using present tense.
Concrete examples of play. Describe as if people 50 years from now can understand of how it works.
Date- provide the year of work, not “10 years ago”
No casual/conversational language. Also, this is not a review so leave out personal opinions.
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- describe the story/game world and the way the player/reader interacts – the sensual and formal qualities of the work. Do these qualities connect the work with other works of e-lit, games, art or literature?
- use concrete examples! without spoilers.
- try to interpret larger meanings or messages in the work, but don’t overdo the interpretation.
- conclude with information about discoverability, how it is accessed, mention reception, controversies, awards, etc.
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