S231. CANCELLED: Game On Again: Teaching Writing for Video Games 2.0

Status: Not Accepted

Room 214B, Henry B. González Convention Center, Meeting Room Level
Saturday, March 7, 2020
1:45 pm to 3:00 pm

 

Following last year’s successful panel on writing for video games, this year’s panel will focus on pedagogical tools teachers can use in the classroom. Software like Twine, Imagine 7, Bitsy, or RPG Maker are easy to use and adaptable to many different kinds of writing, from fiction to poetry, to multimodal writing. Our panel will show how to incorporate these tools in the classroom to write compelling digital narratives that promote empathy through interactivity.


Outline & Supplemental Documents

Event Outline: Game_On_Accessibility_Outline.docx

Participants

Moderator:

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 associate professor of creative writing and new media at the University of St. Thomas.

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).

Julialicia Case is a 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.

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