VR Webinar: Bookish Adventures and Players as Readers in Virtual Reality Games

Eddie Paterson will deliver the 3rd installment of our new series, 'Seeing Double: Books, Narratives, and Virtual Realities', on 14 October 2020.

Title: 'Dear Reader: Bookish Adventures and Players as Readers in Virtual Reality Games’

Date and time: Wednesday 14 October 2020, 1:00-2:00PM AEST

Registration: Closed

Abstract: Drawing on recent Virtual Reality games Moss (2018) and Déraciné (2019), this paper will explore why books and the experience of reading are key to the future worldbuilding and immersive potentials of VR gaming. Expanding on Once Upon a Pixel (Paterson, Williams, Cordner 2019), and with reference to Souvik Mukherjee's Video Games and Storytelling: Reading Games and Playing Books (2015), I will analyse the tensions between reading, remembering, and playing in VR storytelling.

Speaker: Dr Eddie Paterson is Head of the Creative Writing program at the University of Melbourne. His books include The Contemporary American Monologue (2015), Once Upon a Pixel: Storytelling and Worldbuilding in Videogames (co-authored with Tim Simpson-Williams and Will Cordner, 2019), and Redactor (2017), which was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Awards and the John Bray Award.