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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: worldbuilding
Not hubris but the ever self-renewing impulse to play
“Not hubris but the ever self-renewing impulse to play calls new worlds into being.” — Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks
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Cyberpunk: Past and Future
This Friday, Geoff Long and I will run a collaborative storytelling workshop during Cyberpunk: Past and Future, a special event at USC Visions & Voices co-curated by professors Henry Jenkins, Scott Fisher, and Howard Rodman. Later, we’ll be publishing some … Continue reading
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Tagged bruce sterling, co-creation, cyberpunk, futures, geoff long, howard rodman, scott fisher, visions and voices, workshops, worldbuilding
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Worldbuilding at Berlinale Talents 2015
As entertainment properties become increasingly spatialized and nonlinear, spreading across diverse platforms, contexts, and modes, how might they benefit if the ways in which they are developed were to undergo similar changes? What alternative approaches exist to the traditionally linear … Continue reading
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Tagged alex mcdowell, berlin, berlinale talents, bruno setola, juan diaz, process design, rilao, worldbuilding
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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