For the last several months I've had a single lone section of my front page left unlinked and forlorn-- BUT NO LONGER.
And now the prophecy is complete
A Minor Thought: Now I Am Become Unstoppable
Over the previous week and a half, I have received as a consequence of my recent birthday, the following--
New interview: “Historically Inaccurate”
It's from October of last year, but my blog, my rules HA, I'm calling it NEW, OKAY-- I was interviewed by my undergraduate alumnae magazine about my experimental archaeology!
Soap: Interregnum
I threatened in my latest issue of The Minor Hours and Small Thoughts Magazine that I would start putting these experimental archaeology write-ups in their own separate posts-- but I've lost some momentum, so best to reorient ourselves in the narrative.
A Minor Thought: Unreliable Narrators
It was always part of digital literacy to be wary of what someone wrote on the internet, but that was typically most applicable to things like Yahoo Answers and random echo chamber forums.
Embracing the cozy (again); or, MFAs, Memoirscape, and the Persistence of Memory
(Part 2: What It Means to Leave, and to Be Left-- But Also to Come Home Again) Fig. 1. A seat. A room. And stones. (Room design and photography by Hannah Belan) 1. Interactive Media and Game Design It doesn't roll easily off the tongue-- not least because it's the name of the MFA degree... Continue Reading →
Embracing the cozy; or, MFAs and Me
(Part 1: A History of the Universe Until Now, With Some Significant Exceptions) Fig. 1. Foreshadowing, probably. (Photograph by Hannah Belan) 1. Several Jokes and No Laughs I have this joke I like to tell these days, which makes sense to only a very small group of people: I don't like games. In front of... Continue Reading →
Video from Boston Post Mortem!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ET6_MWhnsg If you missed the Boston Post Mortem panel about the Memoirscape project I've been a part of--SURPRISE AGAIN, THERE'S A VIDEO. Again, here's the official blurb: After a successful run of their Fall 2023 escape room Home for the Holidays, Interactive Media and Game Development graduate students at WPI decided to completely revise their escape... Continue Reading →
Upcoming appearance: Boston Post Mortem panel “Designing a Cozy Escape Room: The Memoirscape Project at WPI”
Surprise! I have yet more things happening with this Mysterious MFA I'm pursuing-- and this is one of them. Tonight at 7 PM (and online, for free), join me and four other core designers of an immersive, interactive, narrative experience called Memoirscape talk about how it came about, what challenges we faced, what fascinating results... Continue Reading →
Building the Spear (or, despite my protestations to the contrary, it appears I wrote a game)
fanhackers: When building a spear, what matters: you, building or the spear? At the recent FSNNA conference (were you there? Did we meet? If you’ve been there, the panel recordings and the discussion space is still available for a week.), Katherine Crighton, Dr. Naomi Jacobs and Shivhan Szabo introduced an online game where you can create new... Continue Reading →
Katherine Crighton 