User:Thijshijsijsjss/Human Parser/Forked Dialogues/Session 3

FORKED DIALOGUES #3
Exploring interactive fiction as a plurality

* Wednesday May 28th? Date confirmation pending...
* 11:00?
* WH 4th floor
* Snacks and drinks provided :) 

Reading CYOA books alone in your room, playing a text adventure behind your computer screen... Often, interactive fiction can be an individual experience. Forked Dialogues explores ways to make interactive fiction a collaborative, performative and plural experience.

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Hey! In the coming weeks I'm hoping to host a third and probably final playtesting session: Forked Dialogues #3

Who are you? When answering this question, where do you end and the performative entity of your answer begin? Who is 'I' in the stories we tell? In this session, we will do some game-adjacent activities in a small group in which we focus on non-digital interactive fiction: by co-narration and by co-reflection we will investigate the interactive fiction we are ourselves.

Schedule:

1. Introduce ourselves using a questionnaire (5 min)
2. Read and discuss thesis excerpt: About Character Creation (10 min)
3. Play some games while we narrate what we're doing -> increasingly 'away from the digital' (20 min)
   1. Minit / A Short Hike (Character?)
   2. The Hobbit (You)
   3. Her Story (I)
4. Read and discuss thesis excerpt: About IF (10 min)
5. Play The Ground Itself to co-narrate (for how long we feel like)
6. Play a demo

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(prep section)

> Probably first / second week of June, ideally last week of May > May 28?
      (May 25 thesis deadline) -> might need to finish early to focus on playtest
      (June 6 final presentation handin) -> would be good to have before this
      (June 16 / 17 T6 assessments) -> definitely needs to be before this
> About non-digital electronic literature / interactive fiction?
> goal to converge more to grad show

Ideas:

• Point to discuss: `I' is interactive fiction
• Discuss Cybernetics and Ghosts, discuss thesis excerpt
• TTRPG (micro) -- willingness to lend out our sense of identity
• Chatroom -> maybe etherpad where we assume roles
• Narrative games, escape room games, etc

Proposed schedule:

1. Character Creation: introduce ourselves using a questionnaire (appears in thesis appendix), look at several character sheets (DnD, ...)
2. (small and breezy game-like activity)
3. Thesis excerpt + Calvino excerpt: splitting of I, we ourselves are IF
4. Play: The Ground Itself to co-narrate
5. Play: demo