Life has been busy for AbTeC as we prepare for the Skins Summer Institute (SSI) in late July at Concordia University in Montreal. SSI is a two-week intensive workshop for Aboriginal (Indigenous/First Nations/Native) youth that combines instruction in video game design with immersion into Aboriginal stories and storytelling techniques. The workshop covers traditional storytelling as [...]
Skawennati, Nancy and I are in Toronto this week, giving a two-day Machinima Workshop as part of imagineNative 2010. We have nine students, invited by iNative to participate, who spent yesterday on a very steep learning curve. Today we’re going to start shooting 3 30 second machinimas to enter into the Machinima Expo promo festival.
Aboriginal Territories in Cyberspace’s learning initiative “Future First Nations: Native Storytelling through Virtual World Building” made it into MacArthur Foundation’s Digital Media and Learning Competition, but we need your help to win.
The Little Big Planet workshop was a small success. It was attended by 3 people from our research network: Bruno from obx, and Lynn and Morgan from Tag.
Phase 1 was getting to know each other. Phase 2 was the technical introduction, telling stories and talking about telling stories. Now we’re moving into Phase 3, building the teams. Phase 3 entails a serious point of inflection, where the students go from absorbing stories and technical skills information to directing and producing their own work.Â
Phase 3 is [...]
We’re at Kahnawake Survival School this weekend, getting our third Skins workshop under way. The schedule is here.
Beth is our guest expert this time, and she’ll focus this weekend on getting the students to choose stories, roles, teams and platform. We’ll also be pushing ahead on animation and–good news, as we didn’t think the KSS machines could [...]
In preparing for next week’s Skins workshop, I’ve come up against asking how to help the students decide what roles they should take on in their teams. I’m used to either working with young young youth who tend to take on bits and pieces of every role with help from myself and others with the [...]
Tracy Fullerton provides a helpful overview and in-depth suggestions about how to set up, run, and make use of playtesting sessions as a designer. I plan to adapt these methods into the playtesting sessions of the games made during my doctorate. I strongly believe in the process of iterative game design, as supported by Zimmerman, [...]
I didn’t actually know I was an activist, not until I was told so in a class at Simon Fraser University in my first semester. I’ve come to discover that I’m naturally an activist by the very nature of my interests and direction of my doctoral research. By engaging in my own community, I automatically [...]
Based on, admittedly little, of what I have read so far concerning AI perspectives of interactive storytelling and interactive drama as it relates to games, many researchers follow the Hero’s Journey, the Three Act Structure, and the rising action/climax/denouement forms of story. They often divide this structure into a series of beats to program out [...]
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