In this course students will use games and gaming principles to collaboratively construct a deeply immersive post-apocalyptic world. Students will populate this world with people to meet, places to find, and things to discover, and then will develop well-rounded characters who will explore this created world through role-playing gameplay. Students will then write a series of flash fiction stories describing the unique experiences of their characters.
To round out our knowledge of the varieties of post-apocalyptic narratives across media, we will read a selection of post-apocalyptic short stories, watch two post-apocalyptic films, and play and discuss the post-apocalyptic role-playing video game Fallout 3. As we read, watch, and play, we will catalog our observations in a wiki that can be referenced as students begin building their unique post-apocalypse, developing their characters, and writing short narratives.
