Camila Gutiérrez

Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Visual Studies

STUDENT
PROJECTS

COM 617: Language of Videogames (2024)

Interactive narrative project: In inaugurating the “Minor in Videogames and Interactive Narratives” at UC, students made original stories using Twine and Bitsy. The creation process involved working in the local computer lab and a peer review session in class.

“Érase una vez en la monarquía”

by Tomás, Pascual, Sebastián, and Francisco [made in Bitsy]

“College Life”

by Cristóbal, Constanza, Camilo, and Antonia [made in Twine]

CMLIT 13: Virtual Worlds (Spring 2021)

Film analyses: Students worked in groups to create a 1-slide film analysis on google slides, using a film of their choice. They had to record audio explaining their analysis. You may click on the audio icons to listen to the explanation of each slide. You may find the instructions of the project on the final slides.

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CMLIT 13: Virtual Worlds (Fall 2020)

Twine project: students made an adaptation/remediation of one of the stories we read for class. They had to use basic HTML and the Twinery app.

​Students worked in groups over a couple of weeks. Then, they recorded a podcast episode explaining the rationale behind the adaptation. Their rationale had to integrate some of the key concepts we had studied during the semester.

​Click on each box to play the game.

“Bintimon”

by Alexis, Charlie, and Joey

“Long Dream”

by Pranav, Raed, and Robyn

Tool used: Twinery.org
Games uploaded with student authorization for display on this site.

CMLIT 13: Virtual Worlds (Fall 2020)

Minecraft Project: Click on images to enlarge.

Students use NPCs to create dialogue and help the narrative feel of the map.
Explanatory sign boards and icons to simulate the choice between the real and the simulacra
Students recreated a scene from the film The Matrix (1999). Here Morpheus shows the player the two “pills”.
Students recreated the carnival dreamland scene from the film Paprika (2006), including a teleporting device to emulate the transition between dreams and the real world in the film.
This group programmed an actual code that needed to be installed on the game so that the player would enter different dimensions within the same world. The code transports the player into a mini-game where Neo must fight the machines.
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