Excerpt: "This past semester we, Kevin Pontuti and Dave Beck, continued a teaching and research experiment which commenced last fall, bringing our two classes (Digital Cinema Studio and Advanced 3D Modeling and Animation) together to work on cross-course interdisciplinary projects. (...) As we discussed project ideas, one of the general parameters that we immediately agreed upon was the need to provide the students with a specific topic or story idea to get the project moving. (...) Since we were framing the semester around the idea of Cinema and Game convergence, we decided to craft a project where the teams would create film trailers or hook scenes for a game that was being adapted into a film, or basically a game-inspired short. After kicking around a number of story adaption ideas we came upon the idea to use ZORK as a point of departure."
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