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Students’ Transmedia Storytelling

Building Fantasy Fiction Storyworlds in Videogame Design

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Bridging Literacies with Videogames

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World building is the art of creating a fictional world or universe. Authors, moviemakers, and videogame designers build fictional worlds in which to engage readers, viewers, and players in constructing meaning with the story they are telling. The worlds they build must have coherent and internally consistent qualities that help explain why the events supported within them unfold in the ways they do.

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  1. Sam Houston State University, Texas, USA

    Hannah R. Gerber

  2. St. John’s University, New York, USA

    Sandra Schamroth Abrams

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Rish, R.M. (2014). Students’ Transmedia Storytelling. In: Gerber, H.R., Abrams, S.S. (eds) Bridging Literacies with Videogames. Gaming Ecologies and Pedagogies Series. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-668-4_3

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