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Hello, my name is Clara Fernandez Barra and I'm Associate Arts Professor at New York University.

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I have taught game design and interactive narrative for many years internationally

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and I am very excited to come home to Madrid to share what I know. What I will teach is a

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workshop on digital fiction writing, which means writing interactive stories that you

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can read on your computer or your phone. This is an introduction course. You don't

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need to know any programming beforehand. If you teach in the humanities, things

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like language and history, this is really a class for you. I come from the

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humanities myself. I studied English at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and

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what I teach is precisely for people who might not consider themselves very

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technical. I really like teaching this workshop. We learn how to write

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interactive stories in the format of choose your own adventure books where the reader chooses what

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to do. We will also learn the basics on how to write conversational games where the player types

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in what they want to do. These two interactive formats are quite easy to make with tools that

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are available online for free. By learning how to use the tools that we will cover, you will be able

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to create interactive materials for your own classes. These are games that your students can

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read and play. It can be a very engaging way of presenting materials. You could also teach your

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students how to use those tools themselves. They can create their own wholesome stories.

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It could become, for example, a creative writing exercise. They could also adapt a pre-existing

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story from literature, or they could recreate a historical situation. It's really up to you.

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I hope that you're as excited to participate as I am to teach this course. Thanks for watching.