[arg_discuss] Topic of the Week July 27: Education

[Brooke Thompson]

For better or worse, those already exist.

The thing is, I got a heck of a lot more out of my very much unfocused  
(or so I thought at the time) undergraduate wanderings than I did my  
actual focused work in grad school - which is kinda why I left school  
and went back to the actual making of things. It was insanely stupid  
to be paying thousands of dollars to not get actual experience when  
what is the most helpful in this field is actual experience. (though I  
can now use big words and sound smart if I want to - which is a fun  
skill to have)

I mean we can throw down the seminal (and not so seminal) texts in  
game design, film, theater, production, computer science, sociology,  
art, history, etc etc. But that's a reading list. And it's theory -  
not an education or training.

(though that's just my rather unacademic opinion)





On Jul 27, 2009, at 3:28 PM, Andrea Phillips wrote:


> See, this is more what I expected. ;)

>

> C'mon, aren't any of you tempted to write a nice meaty post we can

> promote up to ARGology laying out a curriculum for the liberal arts

> education for making ARGs and ARG-related experiences? ^_^

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> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Tassos

> Stevens<tassos_stevens at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

>> Read Improvisation for Storytellers by Keith Johnstone.

>> Make a street game.

>> Make something, anything.

>> Fail better.

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