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Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts

Dan Cox

Assistant Professor of Game Design
Wonsook Kim School of Art
Office
CVA Center For The Visual Arts 212f
Office Hours
By appointment in-person or via Zoom.
Office Phone
(309) 438-5320office
phone
Email
dlcox8@ilstu.eduemail
Website
https://dancox.me/website
  • About
  • Education
  • Research

Biography

Dan Cox teaches game design and development with a focus on creative storytelling and narrative design. They research digital tools through exploring how past software structures influence present algorithmic decision-making.

Current Courses

CTK 352.002 Game Design II

CTK 355.002 Game Studio Capstone II

CTK 120.001 History of Games

CTK 354.002 User Experience Design for Games

CTK 452.001 Game Design 2

CTK 352.001 Game Design II

CTK 353.001 Game Development

CTK 453.001 Game Development 1

CTK 305.001 Introduction to Game Engines

CTK 405.001 Introduction to Game Engines

CTK 380.005 Selected Topics In Arts Technology

CTK 481.005 Selected Topics in Creative Technologies

Teaching Interests & Areas

Game Design, Game Development, and Narrative Design

Research Interests & Areas

Critical Code Studies, Media Archaeology, and Platform Studies.

PhD Texts and Technology

University of Central Florida
Orlando, FL

MA Rhetoric and Composition

Old Dominion University
Norfolk, VA

BS Computer Science

Old Dominion University
Norfolk, VA

Book, Authored

Cox, D. Hands-On Dynamic Story Scripting with the ink Scripting Language. Packt Publishing (2021)

Book, Edited

Cox, Daniel, and Chris Klimas, editors. The Twine Cookbook. 1st ed., Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation, 2024.

Conference Proceeding

Berge, P., Cox, D., Murray, J., & Salter, A. Adventures in TwineSpace: An Augmented Reality Story Format for Twine. Vosmeer, M., Holloway-Attaway, L. (EDs), Interactive Storytelling. Interactive Storytelling: 15th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling 13762 (2022): 499 - 512.

Presentations

Collaboration with AI Through Teaching and Practice in Creative Technologies. AI & the Humanities: An Interdisciplinary Symposium. Illinois State University. (2025)
Routine, Twisty, and Queer: Pasts and Futures of Games Programming Pedagogy with No and Low Code Tools. Foundations of Digital Games 2025. (2024)
Cox, D. (2024). Separate Development, Unity with AI. Critical Making With/Against AI. Society for Cinema and Media Studies. 14-17 March 2024. Boston, Massachusetts.
Cox, D. (2024). Twine Before Twine: Media Archaeology and Early Twine Works from 2006 to 2012. ELO (Un)linked 2024. 18-21 July 2024. Online.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/elo2024/hypertextsandfictions/schedule/5
Cox, D., Johnson, E., Murray, J., & Salter, A. (2024). Teaching the Digital Humanities in the Age of AI. Association for Computers and the Humanities. 6-8 November 2024. Online.
Cox, D. (2024). You Were Bought at a Price: War Metaphors and Queer Recovery in Beam Saber and This Body of Mine, I Will Make it a Temple. Generation Analog 2024. 24-25 July 2024. Online.
Howard, K. & Cox, D. (2024). Dynamic story creation across game platforms using the narrative language ink. DiGRA 2024. Guadalajara, Jalisco, México. https://github.com/KentonTaylorHoward/DiGRA2024-ink-workshop

Grants & Contracts

Building Community to Support Student Success in The School of Creative Technologies. Provost Innovation Enhancement Grant. Illinois State University. (2024)