Moderator: Maize LongboatThursday, September 3rd 4:00pm – 7:00pm ET Imagine a descendant of yours who lives seven generations in the future and draw them using paper and pencil. Character design and world-building are vital aspects of digital storytelling, and analog tools and techniques can be integral in the creation process of many digital media forms. …
Moderator: Maize LongboatThursday, September 10th 4:00pm – 7:00pm ET Bring a character of your own imagining into a virtual world. Participants will learn the basics of Second Life, a massive multiplayer online world, to customize their own unique avatar.
Moderator: Maize LongboatThursday, September 17th 4:00pm – 7:00pm ET Learn how to create interactive non-linear digital stories. Using Twine, a free open-source software, participants will use the basic internet languages of HTML and CSS to write “choose-your-own adventure”-style narratives that can be experienced in a web browser.
Moderator: Maize LongboatThursday, September 24th 4:00pm – 7:00pm ET Bitsy is a free web-based game design tool that can be used to create simple 2D narrative- driven games. Participants will be taught how to design an 8-bit game world, characters, 2- frame animations, and narratives to grasp the fundamental aspects of video game development.
We acknowledge the Dish With One Spoon covenant, a treaty whose spirit is one based in collective stewardship and reciprocity. We take the spirit of this covenant to the core of our operations as we bring artists and audiences from many nations across the globe together through our various initiatives and activities.
Please take a moment to think of the land you currently reside upon, wherever you may be, and acknowledge those who went before and those yet to come.