Twining While Black: Interactive Fiction Writer’s Circle
TWINING WHILE BLACK
Are you a Black creative interested in digital storytelling? Writing While Black is partnering with Hand Eye Society to bring you an interactive narrative workshop! Participants will use Twine, an open-source tool for creating a non-linear, choose-your-own-adventure style video game. Learn from a game designer and professional writer on how to build your very own branching narrative story, as well as techniques for developing your voice and staying inspired. At the end of the workshop, you will walk away with a copy of your game, basic HTML knowledge, and ideas for your future digital storytelling projects. This is an introductory workshop; no coding or gaming experience required! Experienced Black writers and game-makers are more than welcome to share their craft, and help grow the Black interactive fiction community.
This workshop is a Closed Black Space. Non-Black writers can look forward to announcements about WordPlay 2018 soon.
Details
Sunday August 12
Wheelchair Accessibility
There is a ramp at the door, but only one washroom which is down a flight of stairs. The closest accessible washrooms are just west of the gallery at McDonalds at Queen and Roncesvalles (open 24 hrs). Please help us make the MOEG a nut-free environment.
Things to Bring
- Laptop and charger
- USB key or other saving device
- Notebook (optional)
- IMAGINATION AND AN OPEN-MIND!
Coordinators
altopunk/alto89, also known as Liesl A. to human folk, is an artist, game developer, zinester, wannabe witch and all around super weird kid. Her claims to fame include a visual novel about an android lady’s brain (Homo Synthetica) and a tiny make-up game parody about a bored queer babe turned cyber god (Femmepocalypse). Along with Jenn Woodall, she co-created the TCAF-themed 2-player game “Battle Zine Turbo V” for the Comics x Games Jam 2017.
Whitney French is a writer, storyteller and multi-disciplinary artist. She’s been published in a couple of places but she takes more pride in the community she builds than the things she produces. She’s an Aries, a middle child, a nerd and a tree climber. Whitney also the founder and co-editor of the nation-wide publication From the Root Zine as well as the founder of the workshop series Writing While Black: an initiative to develop a community of black writers. Whitney French is presently working on an anthology of creative nonfiction by black Canadians for the University of Regina Press. Find her on Twitter!
