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Paging Bob and other ITP Game Designers…

Just had my first class of Dialogue and Narrative Creation in Electronic Games last night. This is through the Dramatic Writing Dept. of Tisch and is being taught by Gordon Farrell. So far so great — we’ll be using Empire Earth (which Gordon helped write the story) as our means to develop narrative ideas in a game setting, and we’ll be reading Game Writing: Narrative Skills for Video Games… which Gordon says is a must read for anyone interested in the field. I think this class is being taught again in the fall… so Bob, and any others at NYU reading this, might want to consider the class. I’ll post a review at the end of the course. I will also mention that Shadow of the Colossus got ripped apart in discussion. Gordon seems to know his stuff as someone who understands the gaming industry and dramatic writing.