LWB = Lucky Wander Boy
RP1 = Ready Player One
First-Person = First-Person: New Media as Story, Performance, and Game
9/2
Introductions
Unit 1: The Catalogue of Obsolete Entertainments
9/4
Read: LWB, through location #1192
In class: LWB Lecture, introduction to Storify
9/9
Read: LWB, through location #2179
In class: LWB Lecture
9/11
Read: LWB, through location #3148
In Class: Play games from Catalogue of Obsolete Entertainments
9/16
Read: First-Person, “Cyberdrama” (1-33)
In Class: First-Person Lecture
9/18
Read: LWB, finish novel
In Class: LWB Lecture
9/23
Read: First Person, “Ludology” (35-69)
In Class: First-Person Lecture, discuss paper assignment
9/25
[Class Meets in Robeson Library Computer Classroom]
In Class: Collaborative Research
9/30
Read: Chapter on Imitation from Crowley and Hawhee (PDF)
In Class: Lecture on imitation
10/2
Write: Complete Draft of Catalogue Paper (due prior to class)
In Class: Writing Workshop - Peer Review
10/7
In Class: Writing Workshop - Peer Review
10/8
Paper due at midnight
Unit 2: Easter Eggs
10/9
Read: RP1, through page 60
NO CLASS MEETING
WATCH VIDEO LECTURE AND COMPLETE QUIZ BY 10/12 AT MIDNIGHT
10/14
Read: RP1, through page 115
In Class: RP1 Lecture
10/16
Read: First Person, “Critical Simulation” (71-116)
In Class: Lecture on “Critical Simulation"
10/21
Read: RP1, through page 179
Play: "Even Cowgirls Bleed"
In Class: Lecture on RP1 and "Even Cowgirls Bleed"
10/23
Read: RP1, through page 294
In Class: RP1 Lecture
10/28
Play: “Depression Quest”
In Class: Twine Lecture (Michael)
10/30
Read: RP1, finish novel
In Class: RP1 Lecture, Twine Lecture-recap (Michael), replay “Depression Quest”
11/4
[Class Meets in Robeson Library Computer Classroom]
In Class: Twine workshop
11/6
[Class Meets in Robeson Library Computer Classroom]
In Class: Twine workshop
11/11
In Class: Twine workshop
11/13
In Class: Twine workshop and 30-minute guest lecture - "Globalization and Modernity: Jules Verne’s 80 Days," Jean-Louis Hippolyte (Department of Foreign Languages)
11/15
Twine game due at midnight
Unit 3: Untangling Games and Stories
11/18
Play: Braid
In Class: Braid Lecture and Walk-Through
11/20
Play: Braid
In Class: Braid Lecture and Walk-Through
11/25
Play: Braid
In Class: Braid Lecture and Walk-Through
11/26
Braid Storify Due by Noon
11/27
NO CLASS MEETING-THANKSGIVING
12/2
Play: Gone Home
In Class: Gone Home Lecture and Walk-Through
12/4
Play: Gone Home
In Class: Gone Home Lecture and Walk-Through
12/9
Play: Gone Home
In Class: Storify Workshop
12/10: Gone Home Storify Due by Noon
12/16: Revised Storify Due by Noon
