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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: narrative
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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Kalmykia’s Alien Chessmaster’s Chess City
Games don’t need to be linked to an existing IP or storyworld to generate enthusiasm, excitement, and narrative. Indeed, they don’t need to start off with any kind of storyworld at all for players to engage with them, obsess about … Continue reading
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
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Tagged content generation, digra, drama, emergence, games, hockey, narrative, process intensity, sports
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Donjon.bin.sh
The “cookbook” in TSR’s 1991 D&D tome, The Dungeon Master’s Design Kit, is a legendary cheat sheet for rapidly conceiving remarkably fleshed out RPG scenarios by rolling dice and consulting tables. Donjon automates the template-and-die-driven scenario generator contained in TSR’s … Continue reading
A man is always a teller of stories…
“[A] man is always a teller of stories, he lives surrounded by his own stories and those of other people, he sees everything that happens to him in terms of these stories and he tries to live his life as … Continue reading
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Tagged autobiography, jean-paul sartre, narrative, story, storytelling
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“[C]inema replaced all other modes of narration with sequential narrative, an assembly line of shots…”
“[C]inema replaced all other modes of narration with sequential narrative, an assembly line of shots that appear on the screen one at a time. For centuries, a spatialized narrative in which all images appear simultaneously dominated European visual culture; in … Continue reading
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Tagged cinema, future cinema, lev manovich, narrative, space
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Fatale
Belgian experimental video game developer Tale of Tales has released its new game, Fatale. Continue reading
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Tagged experimental, indie games, narrative, salome, tale of tales
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Narrative, Play and Social Space
A brief statement describing my academic research and development objectives at the commencement of my PhD. Continue reading
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Tagged narrative, play, public space
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TXT of The Living Dead
I took the original movie (public domain) and broke it out into 500 frames to visually tell the original story from beginning to end. Within those frames there are about 150 frames with speech bubbles. Text messages sent in from … Continue reading
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Tagged narrative, paul notzold, projection, sms
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