Today's discussion is led by: Alessia

• Discussion: Documentary, Interactive Documentaries & Documentary Games
• Class guest: at 11am, Peter Brinson will join us via Skype. Brinson is a game developer, filmmaker and educator. His work explores the narrative possibilities found in animal protagonists, documentary play, and collective ownership. He is Assistant Professor of Interactive Media & Games at the University of Southern California.
• Discuss Documentary Game​ assignment (continued)

• “Documentary” in Newsgames: Journalism at Play, by Ian Bogost, Simon Ferrari and Bobby Schweizer (FYI, the book is available as a McHenry Library online ebook)
• "The Political Documentary and the Question of Impact" in Speaking Truths with Film: Evidence, Ethics, Politics in Documentary, by Bill Nichols (FYI, the book is available as a McHenry Library online ebook)
• Recommended: Games, Design and Play: A Detailed Approach to Iterative Game Design, Chapter 10

• Balance, by Wolfgang Lauenstein and Christoph Lauenstein (our guest has requested that you view this in preparation for his visit)
• Playing Columbine (2008), by Danny Ledonne 

• Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerals: A Whirlwind Heist (2015), by Crows Crows Crows & Directed by William Pugh (our guest has requested that you play 15 minutes (or more) of this (free game via Steam) in preparation for his visit)
• The Cat and the Coupe (2011), by Peter Brinson and Kurosh ValaNejad
• Recommended: Waco Resurrection (2004), by Michael Wison, Eddo Stern, Jessica Hutchins, Brody Condon, Peter Brinson and Mark Allen
• Recommended: Super Columbine Massacre RPG! (2005), by Danny Ledonne

• Reflection