Clara Fernandez-Vara
@clarafv
NYU Game Center faculty & Narrative design & game writing at Fiction Control. Media scholar, cinephile, puzzle head, mystery wrangler.
Family trip to London means hopping into the bookstore to buy @sharnajackson.com's books for my kid.
I’m not at #GCD but you can find copies of the latest edition of my book, Introduction to Game Analysis, in the bookshop.
Can’t go out today unless I get one of those Olympic Games coats to brave the cold and wind in NYC. (Temperature in Celsius.)
I'm convinced that the current obsession of the US government with annexing Greenland comes from people who have learned about global politics playing Risk (the board game). Just look at the map. (Image from Wikimedia commons) commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ri...
This applies to a lot of rich powerful people, who clearly cannot understand affection, love or joy, and just try to fill the black hole where their souls should be with infinite money, and it’s never ever going to be enough.
A good way to start the week is to find this waiting in my mailbox. Congrats, @rdansky.bsky.social !
Merry Christmas to those who celebrate, and if not, peace and love to you too. These are times to stay together and help each other. ❤️🎄
@theindependent.bsky.social has a different interpretation of the profile of Luigi M
Lemme fix this for you @nytimes.com : Suspect in CEO shooting was a fan of Elon Musk and anti-wokeness, and praised Tucker Carlson. Cut the videogame scare crap, the 1990s are long gone.
Meet Cardboard. Was born on Monday at 10 am. Congratulations again, it was a great show ❤️
Qué ilusion poder estar en la presentación de Gêmu: Cultura Visual y Videojuego Japonés, con Marçal Mora y @vthewanderer.bsky.social
Really happy to be in Spain to live the Eurocup Final. The energy is fantastic, and here they've set up a big screen on the beach, and the reactions to every move are huge.
Opening keynote of Narrascope, which seems it’s been picked just for me 😍
The new cover for Introduction to Game Analysis definitely reflects my main research interest on detectives. When the illustrator sent me the sketch, I had to say yes.
The 3rd edition of Introduction to Game Analysis is now available! The book is now updated to reflect the importance of streaming culture and the role of AI in writing among other things. routledge.com/Introduction...
As both an English major and a cinephile, my brain couldn't help but make this connection.
My hotel roomnis nice, but the channel lineup is terrible (see attached) and the TV has motion smoothing on by default and I can't change it whyyyyyyyy
Hi! I'm Clara Fernandez-Vara, I'm faculty at the NYU Game Center, where I teach Narrative Design. I also work on commercial games, the latest being one of the writers of Saltsea Chronicles for Die Gute Fabrik.