Hands-on Textuality:
Designing literature for indie game development



Alex Christie | @axchristie
Doctoral Candidate in English
INKE-MVP Research Assistant
University of Victoria


Go hands-on with the prototypes at axchristie.github.io/hands-on

Proust's Manuscripts

Magic Lantern

Duchamp's Manual of Instructions

Apollinaire's "La Cravate et la montre"

A Select Annotated Bibliography Concerning Game-Design Models for Digital Social Knowledge Creationwith Ray Siemens, Nina Belojevic, Alyssa Arbuckle, Matthew Hiebert, Shaun Wong, Derek Siemens, Alex Christie, Jon Saklofske, Jentery Sayers, and the INKE and ETCL Research Groups. Mémoires du livre / Studies in Book Culture 5.2 (2014). 79 pp.

TEI Proust Prototype

Produced with modVers

Hands-on Proust Prototype

Produced with Axure

Papers, Please

Hands-on Beckett prototype

Produced with Twine

Thank You

Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE)

The Modernist Versions Project (MVP)

The Electronic Textual Cultures Lab (ETCL)

Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities

The Maker Lab

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