first project – Sprockets and Springes

The Knights Oaths

I created the rules for a board game as my unassignment, this was inspired by how our most recent readings at the time had been about knightley morals. The game, which I am currently calling The Knights Oaths, makes you create a honour system for your knight, you are rewarded for following some aspects, butContinue reading “The Knights Oaths”

Bisclavret Knight & Lady POV

Modern story telling allows you to delve further into the minds of the characters and expose (maybe “expose” is too strong of a word…) a side of them that potentially confirms or denies what the audience previously thought about them. Often, when we are introduced to supporting characters in literature, we are given these flatContinue reading “Bisclavret Knight & Lady POV”

Here After

I will be dead in the next moments to pass. I know not of the time spent between my departure of the boat to trudging through waist high snow; I only know that this blizzard was sent from hell, its purpose, to slay me. The death I spoke of while aboard the vessel will neverContinue reading “Here After”

the long awaited First Major Project

Explanation I was granted an opportunity to flex my adaptation skills for this first project. While I was reading “The Book of the Dead” from Edwidge Danticat’s The Dew Breaker, I realized how theatrical it is. Right off the bat, Danticat uses conversational dialogue to do some exposition, which read like a script in myContinue reading “the long awaited First Major Project”

The Magic: The Gathering Deck of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

As an unessay, I’ve created a Planeswalker Magic: The Gathering card based around Olaudah himself, and, (because MTG is short the blue/white pirate cards I was looking for by a large margin) to go with him, an Olaudah Equiano Legacy Deck. (This is a deck containing at least 60 legal cards from any set ofContinue reading “The Magic: The Gathering Deck of the Life of Olaudah Equiano”

Beowulf Found Poem

“When war assaults praise-worthy actions must honor his comrades, himself wielded, and the well loved land-prince Long did rule them. With weapons of warfare, weeds for the battle, Many a jewel with him must travel And favors no fewer they furnished Lone on the main, a gold-fashioned standard sad was their spirit, Their mood veryContinue reading “Beowulf Found Poem”