SGC18: Christy Dena - Worldbuilding our World
8Why are you making games? Why are you making creative projects? For some people it is a way of earning an income (when you can!), for some it is to express themselves, and for some it is to imagine new worlds. There are lots of reasons why we choose to create. Many of us also make decisions about what kinds of things we create, and how we create them too. Some are also aware of how our creations affect others. This talk charges headlong into the idea that some of us are aware of what we’re doing when we bring a new world into this world. We’ll cover the different ways in which we shape our existence through our creations.
About Christy Dena:
Christy Dena is a writer-designer-director who works with games, film, digital and live performative projects. Her original projects have won multiple interactive storytelling awards, and her work has been commissioned and selected for touring with Experimenta, Babycastles, and The Cube QUT. Christy has served on festival juries, funding and industry peer assessment panels. Christy organises events that nurture creatives who push the edges of industry, including Forward Slash Story, Crafting Intangibles, Extended Experiences Lab, and Transmedia Victoria. Christy has worked as the National Chair of Games and Department Coordinator of Games at SAE, as well as Programme Coordinator for the interdisciplinary Masters of Creative Industries, and as a Digital Producer for Planet X Studios and Imagine If. Christy has a PhD in Transmedia Practice, and shares her insights into creative practice in academic and industry publications such as Convergence Journal, Leonardo Electronic Almanac, ToDiGRA, and Cordite Literary Review.www.ChristyDena.com
Video recording from Sweden Game Conference 2018, October 17-19, Arena Skövde
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