From the Lab
Notes on 'Experiencing Stories with/in Digital Games' Colloquium
Gail Carmichael — October 3, 2011 - 1:12pm
Andrew Wallace and I just got back from an interesting two-day event on Montreal this past weekend called Experiencing Stories with/in Digital Games. I wrote a bit about the experience on my personal blog:
You've probably heard it before: we've got a long way to go in finding artful ways to meld great storytelling with the traditional mechanics of digital games. Being a computer scientist, I usually see the attempts of improving the state of the art from the technical perspective, but this past weekend I got to learn more about what the humanities researchers in academia and the writers, artists, and designers from industry have been doing at the Experiencing Stories with/in Digital Games colloquium held in Montreal.
You can read the rest of the post, and check out my live notes online (please excuse spelling, grammar, and formatting issues).