** Note this will be the first lecture at http://www.santafecomplex.org **
SPEAKER: Terry Borst Content designer and scriptwriter TITLE: Serious Games, Simulations and Autonomous Actors in Evolving Worlds LOCATION: 632 Agua Fria http://www.santafecomplex.org TIME: Wednesday, March 5, 12:30p Lunch will be available for purchase for $5 ABSTRACT: An informal presentation of some recent leadership training games in real-time 3D environments -- with an eye towards advancing from the highly contained simulations of version 1.0 products to more expansive future versions which could benefit from the application of intelligent agents, cognitive architectures, and other adaptable and autonomous systems. Brief demos and playthroughs will lead to some of the processes pursued in developing and building these games currently, and the inevitable limitations of these processes. How much can we integrate narrative, pedagogy, interactivity, and world autonomy, and what kind of design and process tools might further this integration? About Terry Borst: I'm a film and television writer who has also been scripting and collaborating on the design of entertainment videogames and (more recently) training and educational games for more than a decade. Just over a year ago, I co-authored Story and Simulations for Serious Games (published by Focal Press), a "handbook" for the design, representation, and production of digitally delivered training environments. We are at the precipice of radically redefining the nature of story, narrative, and learned experience, and I'm interested in seeing how we can use new tools to further this leap into the unknown. Find out more at http://www.terryborst.com. ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
