Well, things have been busy here at Story Kitchen! Maureen is teaching at USC this semester and knee deep in a new crop of students, and we’ve also both been experimenting with video as a format for some of the discussions we want to have.
BUT! I came here to talk about something else entirely, and that is this: Tomorrow I’m teaching a very condensed Game Design Workshop as part of FIYAHCON 2021 and as I prepared the slides and the activities, I realized how much I miss teaching game design, too!
There are lots of writers who want to learn more about game design, I bet, either so you can be more effective at writing for games, or because you want to design games, or maybe you’re just curious. So I’m toying with the idea of teaching a Game Design Lab where the goal would be to learn some stuff and then team up to collaborate on a game. I’d like it to be a nondigital game because a) it’s more accessible if programming skills are not required and b) there are lots of fundamental design principles that are EASIER to learn when you aren’t also trying to get the code to work.
So…if you’re interested in staying in touch about a future class on this, make sure you sign up for the newsletter, because we’ll be announcing new workshops and courses there.
If you’re also attending FIYAHCON, see you there! Otherwise, I’ll be back next week. Happy writing!