Here's a (late) roundup of postings in week 5 of the Digital Worlds uncourse blog experiment.
Do Game Players Tell, or Create, Stories?
Keeping Up With Digital Worlds
An Unfortunate Sequence of Events...
Quick - Find Out About Some Platform Games...
Friday Fun #6 Boomshine and Desktop Tower Defense
Gravity Waves…
One, Two, Three, JUMP!
Emergent Stories
Growing the Platform Game - You're On Your Own, Now (If You Want to Be!)
Story Arcs, and the Three Act Structure
I also set up a wiki on wetpaint - http://digitalworlds.wetpaint.com/ - to explore how I might be able to refer readers out to exercises on it (although none of the handful of uncourse readers appear to have tried creating a page yet...) In particular, creating template pages feels right, somehow, though the proof of course would actually be in a proper course setting where students somehow felt compelled to engage in the wiki?
I've also had a couple of days writing two or three posts ain one go, and then scheduling their publication time (e.g. I have one cued up for tomorrow already) to try and find a way of getting myself a light day - or even a day off! Authoring this way certainly puts into perspective the commitment we require of OUr students, even on a 10 point course.
Something that's started to intrigue me is the extent to which narrative structures, and the structures that underpin games with a strong narrative, might also apply to learning design. Whren I manage to free up some creative mental energy, I'll have a think about how to use e.g. emergent story techniques as another way of (re)presenting the uncourse blog itself.
Tools-wise, it's possibly also worth mentioning that I used graphviz to generate the graph view of different story structures in An Unfortunate Sequence of Events.... It was certainly quicker than drawing them by hand, and made playing around with them to tweak the structures really easy.Blogged with the Flock BrowserTags: digitalworlds, graphviz, wiki
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