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Arts Division
Department of Performance, Play & Design (PPD)
Associate Professor
Faculty
Art & Design: Games + Playable Media (AGPM)
Digital Arts Research Center
337
Little Stories Lab: DARC 325
Email eswensen@ucsc.edu for this quarter's schedule.
Digital Arts Research Center
Elizabeth Swensen is a game designer, paper-tearer, and Associate Professor of Art & Design: Games & Playable Media at UCSC. She received her M.F.A in Interactive Media from the University of Southern California and her B.A. in Classics from Willamette University. Her research is in designing narrative for interactive experiences, system design for playful learning, and experimental Tabletop RPG design as a part of the UCSC Center for Monster Studies.
- Interactive narrative and performance
- Monstrous identities in play
- Metacognitive development outcomes and strategy-based learning in games
- Game design exploring the role language plays in enforcing identity.
- Writing for interactive experiences
- Production and collaboration methods
- Games as personal narrative
- Experience design
- TTRPG design
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