karisjones
Karis Jones (Ph.D.) is an educator, literacy consultant, public humanities scholar, and community activist, as well as Assistant Professor of English Language Arts at Empire State University – SUNY. She studies issues of equity in literacies learning and writing across disciplinary, fandom, and gaming spaces.
Games
Darian Thrailkill, Karis Jones, Virginia Killian Lund, Faye Edmiston, Kelly Jay Smith "We Know Something You Don't Know"
We Know Something You Don’t Know invites you into the lives of students making their way day-by-day through the education system. In the game, you play as a student who is labeled many times by the educational institution as a “troublemaker,” but you know differently. You and your classmates happen on something the teachers and administrators do not know about-- but has important consequences for the community as a whole. As you play through the game, you will explore your character and the group through a series of collaborative scenes set by you and your classmates with teacher and institution responses always lurking around the corner.
https://virginialund.itch.io/we-know-something-you-dont-know
Karis and Nathan Jones "Stranger Games and the Twilight of the Slayers"
In this YA-fiction-themed campaign, you will generate dateable NPCs based on popular archetypes to help you save your town from destruction! Winning Entry in "One Page Dungeon Contest: 2020"
https://karisjones.itch.io/stranger-games-and-the-twilight-of-the-slayers
Nathan and Karis Jones "The Titan's Sieve"
A group of adventurers are swept along with the corpses of their colleagues into a titan's loot-sorting machine and fight their way out. Winning Entry in "One Page Dungeon Contest: 2018"
https://natescottjones.itch.io/the-titans-sieve
Karis and Nathan Jones "When is Cake"
A system-neutral 1 hour wedding themed tabletop roleplaying mini game, in which players interact as wedding guests in four 15-minute acts, pursuing individual goals. Hopefully you will make it to the cake with minimal drama...but we doubt it! Available via One Page Dungeon Compendium 2022.
https://natescottjones.itch.io/when-is-cake
Nathan and Karis Jones "And Still We Rise"
Our planet is a flat disk perpetually moving upward in space. Suddenly, the news breaks that we have discovered an existential threat, and there's limited time to save the world! Available via One Page Dungeon Compendium 2023
https://natescottjones.itch.io/still-we-rise
Open access work on TTRPGs
Jones, K., Storm, S., Castillo, J., & Karbachinskiy, S. (2021). Chasing New Worlds: Stories of Roleplaying in Classroom Spaces. Journal of Language & Literacy Education, 17(1), 1–17. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1300739.pdf
