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.