This coming Thursday (27th September) we will look at narrative and how it can work as an analytic tool to help understand media.
You have three tasks to do before we meet:
1. Play through a "game", Welcome to God Club. The game itself is about fundamental principles of narrative and it doesn't take long to play, maybe less than 10 minutes.
2. Read the first section (only up to the Spacial Stories and Environmental Storytelling section) of the essay Game Design as Narrative Architecture by Henry Jenkins. Feel free to read beyond the first section, if you find it interesting, but that's what we'll be discussing in class and I don't want to saddle you with a whole book to read at this stage.
3. Pick a video game you are familiar with and write (this can be your "media diary" entry for this week) about how it works as a story.
NB: I changed around the groups slightly to even them out.
Good luck!
