“Playing With the Truth: How to Create Games that Embed Fact in Fiction”

As part of the Studio for Mediating Play’s project Patching Default Settings: Radical Feminist Gameplay, Dr. Carly A. Kocurek visited and led a workshop titled “Playing With the Truth: How to Create Games that Embed Fact in Fiction” on 27 Feburary 2020. Dr. Carly A. Kocurek is an associate professor of digital humanities and media studies at the Illinois Institute of Technology. She is the author of two books, including Coin-Operated Americans: Rebooting Boyhood at the Videogame Arcade (University of Minnesota Press, 2015) and Brenda Laurel: Pioneering Games for Girls (Bloomsbury, 2017). Her games have been exhibited internationally, and Paste Magazine called her game Choice: Texas “one of the best games of 2014.”

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