{"id":4283,"date":"2026-04-16T11:27:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T14:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ccdhhn.ca\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=4283"},"modified":"2026-04-16T11:28:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T14:28:12","slug":"world-building","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/ccdhhn.ca\/fr\/workshop\/world-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Wor(l)d Building"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Cat\u00e9gorie d\u2019\u00c9v\u00e8nement:<\/dt>
4-10 hour workshop<\/a><\/dd><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Instructor: Jason Boyd<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interactive Fiction, as its name indicates, foregrounds the activity of interaction that becomes key to the reader\u2019s navigation and experience of the work. In Wor(l)d Building, we will use Inform 7 to construct a storyspace \u2014 a textual simulation of a space that generates a story through the reader\u2019s purposeful engagement. Participants will furnish an imagined and\/or recreated space of their own with curious and personal objects to handle, striking views to contemplate, and intriguing things to listen to, all in a world made of words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jason Boyd is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at TMU, and the Director of the Centre for Digital Humanities. He regularly teaches a course called \u201cNarrative in a Digital Age,\u201d where students learn a variety of authoring platforms, including Inform 7, for the creation of playable stories. His essay, \u201cPoetry as Code as Interactive Fiction: Engaging Multiple Text-Based Literacies in<\/a><\/em> Scarlet Portrait Parlor<\/a>\u201d (2023)<\/em>, explored an Inform 7 work that is simultaneously a sonnet, a program, and an interactive fiction.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Toronto Metropolitan University<\/a><\/h3>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
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