76-400 Topics In Creative Writing

6 units, Carnegie Mellon University

Topics vary by semester. Spring 2022 Writing for Interactive Media The mini course will be covering everything needed to fill a students toolbox for anything they may face afterwards. Well start at the basics what is the difference between interactive and traditional storytelling What can interactive writing learn from its predecessors of film, books, stageplays, and oral tradition Well move on to the technical baseline for writing in an interactive space how to interface with other disciplines of a dev team, what the constraints for writing are both technical as well as cultural for global products, how to go from the page to the game. Then well get into the meat of the craft what makes a good script, the difference between gameplay and cutscene writing, how to succeed with draconian technical constraints. And finally well be covering the industry and how to make an application sing.

Prerequisites: none listed

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