Dan Cox
Assistant Professor of Game Design
Schl of Creative Technologies
Office Hours
Mondays and Wednesdays:
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
By appointment.
10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
By appointment.
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- About
- Education
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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
352.001Game Design II
352.002Game Design II
352.003Game Design II
353.001Game Development
352.001Game Design II
353.002Game Development
355.002Game Studio Capstone I
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)
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
Dynamic story creation across game platforms using the narrative language ink. Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA). (2024)
Separate Development, Unity with AI. Society for Cinema and Media Studies. (2024)
Twine Before Twine: Media Archaeology and Early Twine Works from 2006 to 2012. Electronic Literature Organization. (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)