Literate Games at SLCC 2010

Pleiades Creative Director Tim Maly will be presenting at SLCC 2010 on the topic of Literate Games. The SLCC is coming up on the weekend of August 14th in Boston. The schedule hasn’t been finalized, but we’ll update as soon as we know exactly where and when it will be held.

One of the struggles of building good educational content is making it engaging, something books and games have been doing for ages. Join us for a light-hearted look at the narrative possibilities of an interactive medium and some of the weird hybrids (successful or otherwise) that people have tried. Can we learn from history to make better learning materials in Second Life? (Yes.)

This is a presentation that steps a little outside of Second Life to look at how other mediums deal with the kinds of challenges that Second Life creators face when they are building compelling interactive content.

This session will be about analogy building. We’ll look at how game makers and book makers have approached the kinds of problems that Second Life content creators face. You’ll come away with some new ideas about how narrative and interactivity fit together as well as ways in which they can fall utterly flat.

And you’ll have fun.