Story Arc

Good games have good back stories - An Emeralda Game Inventor has a routine going for him. To invent a game, he must play it. How do you play a game that hasn’t been invented? It’s like asking, How do you follow a star that hasn’t yet risen? It’s the artist’s way, and game invention is art. 359 Words. vp100123. ©2010 Bill Ritchie. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

Getting Started

Notes on a minigame - He would teach printmaking online, but he would not choose the path other people are taking. He would make his own path, and leave a trail. To start, he must give his students a list of things they’ll need to go on a path in the unknown printmaking world. 1080 Words. vi100113. ©2010 Bill Ritchie. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com

Teaching Prints

A proposal to teach printmaking online - These times are right to teach printmaking online, writes this professor. For three decades he believed he could teach printmaking at a distance when his time came and technologies were available to the people who want to learn printmaking out of the box. 461 Words. vp100103. ©2010 Bill Ritchie. Full text by email request: ritchie@emeralda.com