Course detail

Studio II - Game Media - winter

FaVU-B2MU-ZAcad. year: 2023/2024

This course guides students to work with narrative text in an interactive form of creative writing and design. An integral part of working with text here is its graphic aspect in digital and physical form. The main theme represents the interactivity of narrative text over time. During the exercises, students learn tools for creating mind maps as an essential part of designing and creating narrative. The actual designing then involves working with the classical form of linear and non-linear narrative that uses puzzles, or chains of puzzles, in its virtuality. A separate item here is the creation of interactive dialogue.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

15

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Entry knowledge

Knowledge of key themes, usage possibilities and limits of digital games media.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

To award the credit, it is necessary to submit partial studio assignments and collective or individual semester work. Subsequently, before the committee, he / she defends the results of the semester examination.
Presentation and submission of semestral studio works and exercises. Consultation, participation in teaching and studios is obligatory.

Aims

Students reinforce their ability to work with text at multiple levels.
Students are able to implement interactive narrative structures, puzzles and dialogues. They then apply these independently (as a selected segment of a digital or other game) or in the wider context of a text-based game (e.g. a gamebook).

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Entangled: Technology and the Transformation of Performance, Chris Salter (EN)
Zahrada, Jiří Trnka, 1962 (CS)
René Nekuda, Příručka dobrého psaní, 2009 (CS)

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme VUB Bachelor's

    branch VU-IDT , 2. year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

39 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus

Interactive text
Creating mind maps
Linear vs. non-linear communication
Dialogue creation

Seminar

156 hours, compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer