Hutton Honors College

Video Game Storytelling from the Creator's Perspective
With Lee Sheldon, Award-winning Television Writer and Game Designer

• Thursday, April 5, 2007, 6:30-8 p.m.
• Radio-TV 226
• SIGN-UP REQUIRED

Join us for an inside look into the creative worlds of television and video games with Lee Sheldon, a professor in the Department of Telecommunications who has written for the TV series Charlie's Angels and Star Trek: The Next Generation and designed 18 video games. He has won a Golden Reel Award for his work on Star Trek, and his video games include The Riddle of Master Lu and Dark Side of the Moon, for which he was nominated for Best Adventure Game of the Year award in 1995 and 1998. He designed Disney's Virtual Kingdom, is currently writing a game called The Great Wheel for the Nintendo Wii, and has been designing a series of video games based on Agatha Christie mystery novels for The Adventure Company. He is an expert in the techniques of storytelling in various media and has drawn on his television writing experiences for his work on video games. His book, Character Development and Storytelling for Games, is being used in game design programs throughout the world. Sheldon is also part of a team of IU researchers that recently received a grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation for a project, “Academic Play Spaces: Learning for the 21st Century,” to explore the use of video games to enhance the education of 9-12-year-olds.

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