Ludology vs Narratology vs ergodic literature vs transmedia stories….. Interactivity/narrativity? LUDOLOGY from Latin ludere ‘to play’ + -ology ludologists Espen Aarseth, Gonzalo Frasca, Jasper Juul LUDOLOGY MEETS NARRATOLOGY: Similitude and differences between (video)games and narrative. By Gonzalo Frasca. www.ludology.org Finnish version originally published in Parnasso#3, Helsinki, 1999. http://www.ludology.org/articles/ludology.htm Johan Huizinga – Homo Ludens games that… Read more »

http://monoskop.org/Software_%28exhibition%29   http://www.thechineseroom.co.uk/games/dear-esther/   http://bear71.nfb.ca/#/bear71   http://blog.blprnt.com/blog/blprnt/goodmorning     http://semiconductorfilms.com/art/20hz/   Memo Akten and Quayola http://www.memo.tv/forms/ Listening Post   Sound of Honda Andy Lomas http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/andy-lomas-lets-digital-systems-bloom-in-morphogenetic-creations-exhibit      

chapter 6 could be quite useful for you guys. please read it!   https://iteachu.community.uaf.edu/files/2013/10/McCloud-Understanding-Comics.pdf   v

Please play the following games for our next session: Gone Home, Everybody’s Gone to the Rupture or Her Story. You should play at least one of these games before the class. I will pass the osx version of the games to Nath i believe tomorrow. Gone to the rupture exists as a ps4 game and… Read more »

hi everyone, this is from lea: William Kentridge (mix of live action and animation installation – animated sequences appear from 5min on) How we make sense of the world – interview (from 11min on) Tabaimo documentary about Tabaimo (avalable in ADM library) intro to Tabaimo’s exhibition MEKURUMEKU In case you want to see some of… Read more »

here is the reading. please complete it by the next week Jorge Luis Borges, “The Garden of Forking Paths,” http://oldsite.english.ucsb.edu/faculty/rraley/courses/eng146/Garden.pdf happy holidays. 🙂 v  

Please use some of these notes on narratives to analyze one interactive piece of your choice. It can be a game, interactive documentary, database narrative or similar. Choose one, and by writing up to a page, blog about how do you see either 3 act structure or Hero’s journey mapped or applied on to a… Read more »

http://unspeak.submarinechannel.com/ http://iknowwhereyourcatlives.com/ http://www.fortmcmoney.com http://offshore-interactive.com/ http://interactive.nfb.ca/#/outmywindow http://alma.arte.tv/en/ http://www.pbs.org/pov/empire/ http://www.polarsea360.com/journey/en/   recommended reading; Database as a Symbolic Form Lev Manovich http://www.mfj-online.org/journalPages/MFJ34/Manovich_Database_FrameSet.html

narrative A narrative (or story) is any report of connected events, presented in a sequence of written or spoken words, and/or in a sequence of (moving) pictures narrare – to tell (late latin) ***’traditional’ forms*** literature Crime and Punishment Dostoevsky film Man With a Movie Camera – Dziga Vertov painting – visual arts Caspar David… Read more »