Clara Fernández-Vara compares and contrasts videogames with theatre to understand how they can incorporate narratives as part of the performance.
Podcast: “Media in Transition 7: Unstable Platforms”
What is happening to our culture’s stories and story-tellers? How are new technologies transforming our public discourse?
Podcast: Clara Fernández-Vara, “From Elsinore to Monkey Island: Theatre and Videogames as Performance Activities”
Videogames are not theatre, but the comparison gives way to productive questions: What is the dramatic text of the game?
Podcast: “Booklife: The Private and the Public in Transmedia Storytelling and Self-Promotion”
What are the benefits and dangers of a confusion between the private creativity and the public career elements of a writer’s life caused by new media and a proliferation of “open channels”?
Booklife: The Private and the Public in Transmedia Storytelling and Self-Promotion
What are the benefits and dangers of a confusion between the private creativity and the public career elements of a writer’s life?
Dwarf Fortress Gathers at the Statue and Attends a Party
How Bay 12 Games gave players the tools to craft their own kinds of tellable moments in the game Dwarf Fortress.
Sam Ford: “Centenarian Newspaper Columnist Leaves Us Many Storytelling Lessons”
Sam Ford, CMS alum and Director of Customer Insights for Peppercom, writes about the late Rev. John C. Morris, storyteller extraordinaire.
