Instructor: Noah Wardrip-Fruin

Game writers create worlds, characters, and stories — and also craft computational systems so that players can experience these fictions interactively. This course covers the fundamentals of authoring fictions and systems that work together toward powerful player experiences. From the perspective of players, we’ll be creating things like: worlds they can move around in, objects they can manipulate, puzzles they can solve, characters they can talk with, and stories they can shape through their choices. From our perspective, we’ll be combining the tools of fiction writing with the tools of computer programming and systems design.