Play Sessions & Creative Conversations

play sessions & creative conversations

How can we translate serious topics into interactive narratives?

Creative Conversations

Worlding Vampires: A Conversation between Julia B. Ellingboe and Katherine Castiello Jones

October 29, 4–5:30pm
Taft Research Center

How do vampires provide us with genre-fiction metaphors to discuss oppression, exploitation, and hope? How does one make the asymmetrical play between predator and prey meaningful and interesting? Game designers Julia Ellingboe and Katherine Castiello Jones discuss their many years of collective worldbuilding and the act of translating serious topics into interactive narratives.

Co-sponsored with the School of Communication, Film & Media Studies, Department of Africana Studies, Department of Sociology, and the Games and Animation Program.

Play Sessions

The Parables RPG Play Session with Jay Africa
November 14, 4–6pm
Africana Studies Student Lounge, French Hall 3616
Registration required: https://bit.ly/4f37VGW

November 15, 4–6pm
Africana Studies Student Lounge, French Hall 3616
Registration required: https://bit.ly/3BHQ1Li

The Parables is a Role-Playing Game (RPG) set in the universe of Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Sower. Jay Africa will run two virtual game sessions. Nov 14 is “On the Road,” playing as travelers coming together as Earthseed. Nov 15 is “Acorn,” playing as young Earthseed building its first established community.