Once Upon a Dice Roll

The first year Narratology for Games module has, as many long standing and ever-evolving programmes do, had an interesting history of being split, merged, moved around and eventually settled into its slot as a popular optional choice in the raft of first year choices. It’s also a work horse of a module combining analysis, friendship forging, narrative theory, academic writing and in recent years TWINE game construction. Our students come from a wide range of backgrounds, and prior experiences so there’s no suggestion of any pre-built in knowledge in any of the spheres the modules encompasses so we start from scratch, and in this modules case we start with dice.