An interesting, if short, article on the nature of gaming.
Nokia - Games Without Frontiers
BBC NEWS | Technology | French gamers get a helping hand
France offers a possible solution for independent developers.
Gamasutra - Features - "The Need to Adapt the Tools of Drama to Interactive Storytelling" [09.14.01]
The first in a pair of articles by Randy Littlejohn. As before, I have had little time yet to assess it fully.
Gamasutra - Features - "Agitating for Dramatic Change"
The first in a pair of truly interesting articles by Randy Littlejohn. Further analysis once I've had a chance to examine it more fully.
Reminder: the assignment for this week is to take any three of your past assignments and redraft them (max. 2 pages) using the guidelines we discussed in class. You'll be surprised at how much your work has changed over the past few months.
Homework for Next Time
Ok, gang, that would be the edit exercise. Anyone who was not in class or not in class at the time (cough, Cary) should email me if they didn't receive script pages. The idea, again, is to take whatever you've been given and reduce it by half. You can:
(1) Trim dialogue
(2) Eliminate action lines
(3) Compress descriptions
(4) Etc.
But you can't change the flow of the piece - the idea is to make it tighter and better while still preserving its integrity.
Submission guidelines:
(1) Your name on every page (should be obvious)
(2) The original pages with your handwritten notes
(3) The new pages, typewritten (don't worry about emulating true script format for now)
That is all - we will also go through some syntax next week.
Esquire:Feature Story:Memento Mori
Wow. This here's some good writing.
Wow.
