Slides from my talk at Emory University March 29 2018:
Are Games Bad for Stories? Seeing Interactive Narrative as its own Genre
Slides from my talk at Emory University March 29 2018:
Are Games Bad for Stories? Seeing Interactive Narrative as its own Genre
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Here are the slides for my keynote at ICIDS 2018
My talk at the University of Utrecht in May 2017, Who’s Afraid of the Holodeck? Facing the Future of Digital Narrative without Ludoparanoia
from HKU Interactive Design Channel
Janet Murray Talk on May 21, 2017, co-organized by University of Utrecht focus area game research and HKU University of the Arts Utrecht Professorship Interactive Narrative Design. Introduction by Rene Glas (UU) and Hartmut Koenitz (HKU).
And here are the slides
PDF Who’s Afraid of the Holodeck jhm
The slides from my AR in Action Talk AR in Action 2017 MURRAY
and here is the video
How necessary failures will help VR designers invent new storyforms
My slides from the MIT Virtually There Conference
Video from the conference: my talk is at 6:40
The video stream of our panel from the Versions conference on VR curated by Kill Screen and New INC at the New Museum in NYC March 2016.
I think there are disappointments ahead in the short term because expectations have been raised too high before genre conventions – -a “language of VR” — has been invented, but I remain optimistic about the long-term power of immersive, navigable, 3D art and entertainment.
This event as a whole offers a snapshot of a particular moment in which a diversely situated community of practice has been called into being while platforms are still in flux. There is excitement from all the commercial interest and the emergence of some early high-production-values examples. But directions are unclear.
Some of my take-aways from this very well curated set of presentations:
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