[PDF] Approaching A Pedagogy Of Game Writing eBook

Author : Seth Hudson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 23,60 MB
Release : 2022-07-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1000688569

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This book examines the practices of writers in the AAA video game industry, to provide a model for game writing pedagogy that highlights the roles and skills utilized by these innovative storytellers. Based on a two-year qualitative study, gathering data through conversational interviews, Seth Hudson combines theory, practice, and his experience as an educator-researcher to shed light on the phenomenon of game writing and writers who drive innovation in game storytelling. The author gives context for a range of audiences, examining the role of computer game design (CGD) in higher education, the role of writing and narrative design within those programs, the current and historical challenges game writers face, and the purpose of the research underpinning this book. Hudson frames a synthesis of research findings and relevant theory to illustrate new teaching practices informed by his findings that will help better serve students. This book will provide an essential resource for game studies and game design educators and researchers, as well as game narrative enthusiasts.

Author : Richard Colby
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 47,96 MB
Release : 2021-01-27
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 303063311X

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This book explores ethos and games while analyzing the ethical dimensions of playing, researching, and teaching games. Contributors, primarily from rhetoric and writing studies, connect instances of ethos and ethical practice with writing pedagogy, game studies, video games, gaming communities, gameworlds, and the gaming industry. The collection’s eighteen chapters investigate game-based writing classrooms, gamification, game design, player agency, and writing and gaming scholarship in order to illuminate how ethos is reputed, interpreted, and remembered in virtual gamespaces and in the gaming industry. Ethos is constructed, invented, and created in and for games, but inevitably spills out into other domains, affecting agency, ideology, and the cultures that surround game developers, players, and scholars.

Author : Douglas Eyman
Publisher : Parlor Press LLC
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 33,72 MB
Release : 2016-04-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 160235734X

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lay/Write: Digital Rhetoric, Writing, Games is an edited collection of essays that examines the relationship between games and writing – examining how writing functions both within games and the networks of activity that surround games and gameplay. The collection is organized based on the primary location and function of the game-writing relationship, examining writing about games (games as objects of critique and sites of rhetorical action), ancillary and instructional writing that takes place around games, the writing that takes place within the game, using games as persuasive forms of communication (writing through games), and writing that goes into the production of games. While not every chapter focuses exclusively on pedagogy, the collection includes many selections that consider the possibilities of using computer games in writing instruction. However, it also provides a bridge between academic views of games as contexts for writing and industry approaches to the writing process in game design, as well as an examination of a variety of game-related genres that could be used in composition courses.

Author : Wendy Despain
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 37,7 MB
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Video games
ISBN : 9780367184780

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This second edition of Professional Techniques for Video Game Writing is updated with new chapters and new authors, but it's still a no-nonsense guide to the professional craft of writing for video games. Not only does the text cover story and narrative elements, but it also addresses dialogue, documentation, and strategy guides. Seasoned video game writers each address a different topic, including the best way to break into the video game industry, how to be an efficient part of a team, and the principles of narrative design. The book also offers script samples, technical writing advice, effective writing tips, and suggestions for how to innovate in game narrative. Key Features Comprehensive enough for veterans and accessible enough for novices Goes into detail about how to write tutorials, script doctoring, and writing for AAA games Delivers invaluable experiences directly from writers in the games industry Full of practical advice from industry pros on how to get a job, and then how to get the job done Author Bio Wendy Despain has more than two decades of experience spearheading digital media projects. She has worked with teams around the world as a writer, narrative designer, producer, and consultant on interactive experiences ranging from video games to augmented reality. She's worked with EA, Disney, Ubisoft, Cartoon Network, PBS, Marvel, and Wargaming. Currently, she's a Production Director at ArenaNet, makers of the Guild Wars franchise. Her books include: Writing For Videogame Genres: From FPS to RPG Talking to Artists/Talking to Programmers 100 Principles of Game Design

Author : Chris Bateman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 23,32 MB
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 150134899X

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As the videogame industry has grown up, the need for better stories and characters has dramatically increased, yet traditional screenwriting techniques alone cannot equip writers for the unique challenges of writing stories where the actions and decisions of a diverse range of players are at the centre of every narrative experience. Game Writing: Narrative Skills for Videogames was the first book to demystify the emerging field of game writing by identifying and explaining the skills required for creating videogame narrative. Through the insights and experiences of professional game writers, this revised edition captures a snapshot of the narrative skills employed in today's game industry and presents them as practical articles accompanied by exercises for developing the skills discussed. The book carefully explains the foundations of the craft of game writing, detailing all aspects of the process from the basics of narrative to guiding the player and the challenges of nonlinear storytelling. Throughout the book there is a strong emphasis on the skills developers and publishers expect game writers to know. This second edition brings the material up to date and adds four new chapters covering MMOs, script formats, narrative design for urban games, and new ways to think about videogame narrative as an art form. Suitable for both beginners and experienced writers, Game Writing is the essential guide to all the techniques of game writing. There's no better starting point for someone wishing to get into this exciting field, whether they are new game writers wishing to hone their skills, or screenwriters hoping to transfer their skills to the games industry.

Author : Flint Dille
Publisher : Lone Eagle
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 43,11 MB
Release : 2008-01-08
Category : Computers
ISBN : 158065066X

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• Authors are top game designers • Aspiring game writers and designers must have this complete bible There are other books about creating video games out there. Sure, they cover the basics. But The Ultimate Guide to Video Game Writing and Design goes way beyond the basics. The authors, top game designers, focus on creating games that are an involving, emotional experience for the gamer. Topics include integrating story into the game, writing the game script, putting together the game bible, creating the design document, and working on original intellectual property versus working with licenses. Finally, there’s complete information on how to present a visionary new idea to developers and publishers. Got game? Get The Ultimate Guide to Video Game Writing and Design.

Author : Matthew Kim
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 10,45 MB
Release : 2017-02-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 1475828233

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Writing Studio Pedagogy (WSP) breaks from the tradition of teaching and responding to writing in traditional ways and moves the teaching and learning experience off the page and into engaging spaces in multiple ways, which can enhance the composing process. Through this collection, scholars interested in rethinking approaches to teaching, writing pedagogy, and innovative learning will find new ways to challenge their own understandings of space, place, and collaboration. WSP involves an attention to space and place in the development of rhetorical acts by focusing on the ways in which they enhance pedagogy. This book takes a unique opportunity to return to pedagogy as the foremost priority in any learning space. Educators might preference WSP for its emphasis on student-centeredness by creating productive interactions, intersections, and departures that arrive from prioritizing learning. WSP acknowledges the centralized role of students and teachers as co-facilitators in learning and writing. These threads are intentionally broad-based, as the chapters contained in this book speak to the complexity of WSP across institutions.

Author : Jami Todd
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 28,64 MB
Release : 2013-05-26
Category :
ISBN : 9781489566973

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Gameplay: The Game Writing Workshop(TM) Ever wonder what it would be like to write a gameplay? Ever wonder what it would feel like to work on a game production? Looking for a game writing challenge to engage your students or employees? Want to write the next blockbuster? Gameplay: The Game Writing Workshop(TM) is a series of lectures and activities especially catered for teachers to stimulate and inspire creativity in the classroom or on the job. This workshop discuses: Writing the First Draft. A game story is all about interactivity. Interactivity is a magical thing that places the audience right in the middle of the action, personalizes story and forces writers to reconsider, re-evaluate and repurpose classical story design principles to a new powerful, storytelling medium. The Game Writing Workshop(TM) examines the challenges of designing a story that maximizes interactivity in a highly collaborative environment. As with any skill, writing memorable game stories takes practice, lots of practice. The Game Writing Workshop(TM) not only proffers an easy-to-grasp approach inspired by Aristotle's Poetics and the Mono-Myth, but also offers you a fun and thought-provoking challenge that will help you hone in on the skills you will need to write unforgettable, interactive stories. Now fully revised and updated to reflect the latest trends and interactive storytelling, gameplay consultant Jami Todd discusses his 7-step process to Writing the First Draft of your gameplay. If you're a writer wanting to better understand the gamewriter's craft, or about to take the chance and write your first gameplay, The Game Writing Workshop(TM) is definitely the best place to start.

Author : Holly Ryan
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 15,96 MB
Release : 2022-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1646421949

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Unlimited Players provides writing center scholars with new approaches to engaging with multimodality in the writing center through the lenses of games, play, and digital literacies. Considering how game scholarship can productively deepen existing writing center conversations regarding the role of creativity, play, and engagement, this book helps practitioners approach a variety of practices, such as starting new writing centers, engaging tutors and writers, developing tutor education programs, developing new ways to approach multimodal and digital compositions brought to the writing center, and engaging with ongoing scholarly conversations in the field. The collection opens with theoretically driven chapters that approach writing center work through the lens of games and play. These chapters cover a range of topics, including considerations of identity, empathy, and power; productive language play during tutoring sessions; and writing center heuristics. The last section of the book includes games, written in the form of tabletop game directions, that directors can use for staff development or tutors can play with writers to help them develop their skills and practices. No other text offers a theoretical and practical approach to theorizing and using games in the writing center. Unlimited Players provides a new perspective on the long-standing challenges facing writing center scholars and offers insight into the complex questions raised in issues of multimodality, emerging technologies, tutor education, identity construction, and many more. It will be significant to writing center directors and administrators and those who teach tutor training courses.

Author : R. Colby
Publisher : Springer
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 21,57 MB
Release : 2013-03-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 1137307676

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An edited collection whose contributors analyze the relationship between writing, learning, and video games/videogaming, these essays consist of academic essays from writing and rhetoric teacher-scholars, who theorize, and contextualize how computer/video games enrich writing practices within and beyond the classroom and the teaching of writing.