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Jeff Watson is an artist, designer, and Assistant Professor of Interactive Media and Games at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts.
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Tag Archives: hockey
Biology of Story Interview: “Living is a Story Thing”
Thanks to Amnon Buchbinder and the Biology of Story team for conducting and smartly editing this interview with me. Check out Amnon’s description of the project and start exploring other thinkers on the topic of story here.
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Tagged amnon buchbinder, biology of story, games, hockey, narrative, play, sports, story
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What Hockey Wants: Drama, Narrative, and Sports
My paper, “What Hockey Wants: Drama, Narrative, and Sports,” was published this month (just in time for the Stanley Cup playoffs) in Well Played Journal from ETC Press. The paper draws on game studies, literary theory, psychology, and other disciplines … Continue reading
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Tagged drama, encoded narrative, games, hockey, ludonarrativity, narrative, sports, well played, writing
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DiGRA Talk: Drama, Narrative, and Sports
What Hockey Wants: Drama, Narrative, and Sports (DiGRA 2014 Talk) from Jeff Watson This talk presents an examination of hockey as it exists in early 21st century North America, paying particular attention to how narrative both emerges from, and is … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Presentations
Tagged content generation, digra, drama, emergence, games, hockey, narrative, process intensity, sports
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