[GAMBIT-UROPS-summon] Fwd: Student project for the 2011 GDC in Austin

[Richard Eberhardt]

If you're interested in attending the Game Developers Conference in Austin this coming year, here's a contest for you:

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From: Lev Chapelsky <lev at blindlight.com<mailto:lev at blindlight.com>>
Date: January 19, 2011 11:05:34 PM EST
To: "Richard E. E. Dansky" <blacktorc at gmail.com<mailto:blacktorc at gmail.com>>
Cc: Lev Chapelsky <lev at blindlight.com<mailto:lev at blindlight.com>>
Subject: Student project for the 2011 GDC in Austin

To: Our friends in game development academia
From: The Game Narrative Board of the Game Developers Conference in Austin
RE: Game Narrative Review program for the 2011 GDC in Austin

Hi folks!

It’s that time again — time to start planning student submissions for the Game Narrative Review project and competition, which will culminate once again with student work on display at the GDC in Austin during the week of October 10, 2011.

We’re circulating this email at the start of this new year to encourage integrating this program into your curriculum between now and April – April 1 is the deadline for initial submissions.

Last year’s program was a great success. 30 submitters were invited to the conference (all those students received free Expo passes) and three submissions — one each from Digipen, SMU/Guildhall and DePaul — were acknowledged as grand prize winners for the outstanding quality of their work (these students were awarded with All Access passes to the conference). Winners or not, all participants found value in the analytical exercise of dissecting a game’s narrative and communicating their findings.

If your school participated last year, we are looking forward to receiving your submissions again this year.

We’d also love to see more new schools give this program a try. The easiest way to do that is to simply introduce the attached template into an appropriate class as an assignment. Some schools further integrate this exercise into their curricula. Please let us know if there’s anything we can do to help foster implementation.

Attached to this email you will find:

 1.  A FAQ on the Game Narrative Review program (including when and how to submit)
 2.  A template for Game Narrative Review submissions
 3.  A sample of a completed Game Narrative Review

If there’s someone else at your school who should be the point on this, please send us their contact info.

As always, please let us know if you have comments or questions. We look forward to hearing from you.

Regards,
Lev
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Lev Chapelsky
GM, Blindlight LLC
Game Narrative Summit co-Chair, GDC Online
w: 323-337-9090 x3122
lev at blindlight.com<mailto:lev at blindlight.com>


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