F195. Game On: Teaching Writing for Video Games

D135, Oregon Convention Center, Level 1
Friday, March 29, 2019
12:00 pm to 1:15 pm

 

Video games have come a long way from the days of Space Invaders and Donkey Kong. Complex in structure, rich in design, today’s narrative video games are a viable art form that can promote empathy and reach a broad audience. Our panel of professors, grad students, and video game writers will discuss the merits of teaching writing for video games and will provide a variety of pedagogical insights into this growing artistic genre.


Participants

Moderator:

Eric Freeze teaches at Wabash College. He has published fiction and essays in periodicals including The Southern Review, Harvard Review, and Boston Review. He is author of Dominant Traits (stories), Hemingway on a Bike (essays), and Invisible Men (stories). 

Salvatore Pane is the author of the novel Last Call in the City of Bridges as well as Mega Man 3. His work has appeared in American Short Fiction, Hobart, and Paste. He is an assistant professor of creative writing and new media at the University of St. Thomas.

Julialicia Case is a third-year PhD student in creative writing at the University of Cincinnati, where she studies digital narratives and contemporary fiction and teaches courses in video games as literature and digital creative writing. She writes fiction, creative nonfiction, and digital work.

Nick Francis Potter is the author of New Animals, a hybrid collection of prose and comics. He teaches classes in writing, cartooning, and digital media at the University of Missouri, and currently serves as the comics editor at Anomaly.

Natalie Mesnard is a writer and game designer currently employed at Grove Atlantic as a digital media strategist. She has worked with numerous literary magazines as an editor, teacher, volunteer, and advocate. Her award-winning board game, DemocraSea, is forthcoming from Game Salute.

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