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Reflecting on this Semester in Game Design

Dec 14, 2023

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Nicholas Andriani

in Academia, digital communities, digital humanities, digital storytelling, Dissertation, fan studies, fantasy, game based learning, game design, game development, game Ideas, game review, game studies, game writing, game-based learning, games, gaming, Graduate Research, graduate school, GSS, instructional design, interactive fiction, ngss, writing

Game Design, instructional Design, and Interaction Design, all collide at the University of Missouri – Columbia. These are the reflections from my course on Game Design. Our 2023 Autumn semester draws to a close. From Portal to Resident Evil 4, analog tabletops such as Settlers of Catan to platformers like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, it’s…
9 Short Stories by Egyptian Women, in Translation

Aug 18, 2021

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Nicholas Andriani

in arab authors, comparative literature, folklore, Islam, Islamic History, language, linguistics, literary fiction, literary nonfiction, literature, memoir, novels, ON WRITING, Reading Women Challenge, writing

Egyptian authors
The Oh-So-Poetic Roshambeaux of Rome in the Thunder Dome: A Rise to a Fall.

Jul 8, 2020

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Nicholas Andriani

in #WisdomWednesday, Europe, folklore, history, literary nonfiction, philosophy, politics, writing

The story of Rome is one of civilizations greatest epics. One of humanity’s greatest successes. And perhaps even greater failures. And thus, all at once perhaps its most tragic. In just over 500-centuries what began as a humble village, just a salty sea breeze away from the Mediterranean, calcified into a peal, a nucleus upon…
On Arabic Sweets and the Middle East: Kunafa – NICHOLAS ANDRIANI

Mar 24, 2020

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Nicholas Andriani

in writing

All of these things are true… I had been in Jordan for several weeks and my love affair with Arabian sweets had reached a lofty peak. In fact, I would begin and end each day with a platter of pastries, smothered in honeys and syrups that would flood through heaps of pistachios on my plate. Then it happened… I……
Prologue to a Memoir: A Rough Draft, a Novel, a Working Confesson.

Jan 4, 2018

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Nicholas Andriani

in #ThursdayThoughts, Adventure, Africa, Author, Authors, Book Blog, books, bookstagram, In Another Country: Novel, knausgaard, literary fiction, literary nonfiction, literature, memoir, Middle East, Morocco, nonfiction, The Outsider, the writers life, travel writing, writing

A strange thing happens when you begin to contemplate the end. It’s as if setting such a definitive goal opens the world to endless possibilities: a phone is buzzing,
Opening lines: A Story About Identity, Revolution, and What it Means to Be a Modern Human. A Work in Progress #LiteraryFiction

Dec 13, 2017

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Nicholas Andriani

in #WisdomWednesday, Adventure, Africa, American Road Trip, Arabic, Archaeology, Art, Author, Authors, backpacker, Backpacking, Blogging, Book Blog, books, existentialist, knausgaard, literature, memoir, nonfiction, rough draft, The Outsider, Travel, travel writing, travelblog, travelblogger, traveler, writing

Excerpt from The Outsider: A Memoir? “The sky out my window is that fiery red which makes the heart swell with life and there it is again: that sensational expanding within my chest, rising to my throat, gripping and stinging my eyes.”