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Rethinking Playfulness! Circle Theory with Orion D. Black


Date & time
Thursday, December 9, 2021
10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

Registration is closed

Speaker(s)

Orion D. Black

Cost

This event is free

Contact

Gina Haraszti

Where

Online

Black-and-white headshot of Black non-binary individual wearing glasses with their name overlaid in front of colourful background

Our new online speaker series! Join us in listening to perspectives on game design, playfulness and storytelling across the globe!

The Technoculture, Art and Games Research Centre (TAG) is happy to announce the next instalment of its new online speaker series, Rethinking Playfulness! Join in to listen to perspectives on game design, playfulness and storytelling!

The upcoming guest speaker is Orion D. Black, a non-binary queer writer and director based in Seattle, USA. Orion will talk to us and answer your questions about Circle Theory. Please RSVP for event link.

Circle Theory is a plain-speech, visual tool used to chart out the narrative threads of your favourite media, and help you build your own. The theory purposes that interactions between plot points occur between one of three "circles:" Character, Environment, and Overwhelming Circumstance.

Orion D. Black is a non-binary queer writer and director based in Seattle. They currently work with CH Media on the Dimension 20 series. Orion's previous work includes narrative design for tabletop roleplaying games.

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