Digital Narrative Games Part: 4

After presenting my game plan to my colleagues and professor a few weeks ago, I started creating the game itself, implementing as much of their feedback as I can. The game itself is not a finished product yet. However, I still want to invite all of you reading this to give it a try. You

Reflection on Mays Imad’s Session

Last week, Mays Imad who is a neuroscientist and professor of pathophysiology and biomedical ethics at Pima Community College, the founding coordinator of the Teaching and Learning Center, and a Gardner Institute gave a lecture which you can watch here about trauma-informed pedagogy. During this session, Dr. Imad briefly explained the scientific and emotional aspects

Digital Narrative Games Part: 3

Following last week’s post where I loosely described the main idea of the game that I am going to create. I began working on the actual scenarios that the game will have to offer. I also created a flow chart that I am hoping can clear things up a bit. The game starts you off

Digital Narrative Games Part: 2

Introduction / BackgroundAfter playing a couple of digital narrative games and reviewing them in a previous blogpost, my professor asked me to create a similar game of my own. It took me a while to settle on the topic of the game, but I think I finally got it. My game is going to be

Self-development post (1/3)

For almost 2 months now I have been doing a self development exercise where everyday I wrote down something that I was grateful for. This is widely known as having a gratitude journal, which can in many cases lower stress, help you get through tougher times and improve interpersonal relationships. Now, when I first got

Digital Narrative Games

Digital narrative games, similar to other games, often convey a story with key values and ideas. They are specifically designed to be as immersive as possible, this is mostly done by giving the player decisions to make that could alter the game’s ending. Throughout last week I played 6 different digital narrative games, each had

The Problem of Othering

The article titled “The Problem of Othering: Towards Inclusiveness and Belonging” by john a. powell and Stephen Menendian aims to define and illustrate the meaning of “othering” by giving examples of the concept taking effect, most commonly to rally political supporters. In addition, the article also explains the mechanics of “othering”, acknowledging that it is

My ALTCV

This ALTCV was made using the website Canva. Hope you like it 😀

Best. Year. Ever.

I’m kidding, I’m kidding, relax. 2020 was one of, if not the worst year ever. Thanks to the pandemic, most people would also call it the most boring year of their life. Speaking of boring, fall 2020 semester was not exception. Feels like I just finished it a week ago. Anyway, to make up for

Introduce Yourself (Example Post)

This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right. You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click the