Course Description:

A foundational course in the narrative methods and storytelling aspects of games. This course will introduce students to literary, rhetorical, and narrative theories that help us to understand games as story-driven media. Particular attention will be given to the ways that games both overlap and diverge from storytelling methods in other print and visual media. Students will study the narrative aspects of many different types of games and apply what they have learned to create their own narrative game.

For the final Project in the course, I created a narrative-driven branching story game based around a lazy FBI agent and his fight to bring peace to his city while also making sure there is enough peace for himself.