Author: Otis Moasby

For the Empathy game kick starter I was a part of the group who created “Dooley Rider”. As a 4 person team we had many different ideas coming together during our brainstorming sessions. It was difficult to reconcile these differences in vision for myself and my teammates during the preliminary stages. However, we eventually were … Continue reading Kickstarter Campaign Reflection →

For my second podcast, Price and I discussed the rhetoric of Monopoly: Cheaters Edition. This was inspired by the discussions we had in class earlier this semester. I also had just played this variation right after we had finished our previous podcast and knew that I wanted to talk about it. I talked about my … Continue reading Podcast 2 Reflection →

After finishing my first podcast, I would like to reflect on the process and how I learned from it. Me and my partner spend a long while brainstorming ideas and bouncing them off each other whenever we thought of one. Eventually we settled on Red Dead Redemption 2 after a meeting with Prof X. Once … Continue reading Podcast #1 Reflection →

Last week I attended Janey Murray’s talk, “Are Games Bad for Stories? Seeing Interactive Narrative as Its Own Genre.” Going in to the presentation I was unsure what to expect as I have never attended a guest speaker event run by the English Department here at Emory. I was pleasantly surprised by the experience that … Continue reading “Are Games Bad for Stories? Seeing Interactive Narrative as Its Own Genre”– REFLECTION →

This exercise gave me a insight to the type of self talk that I experience on a daily basis which is not something that I have examined before. Often I find myself moving quickly from experience and emotion to the next experience and emotion without spending the time to reflect on the experience. I think … Continue reading What’s My Number? →

Let me preface this reflection with saying that I have never played a role playing game up until playing Fiasco. This experience was entirely new to me and as a result made me incredibly skeptical about the whole thing. I know many people who play in person RPGs like Dungeons and Dragons but I never … Continue reading Fiasco Reflection →