Michael V. Cannetti's Portfolio
Candid, Evocative, Purposeful
Here is an idea I had for the Lore of game in my Writing for Games Course. The planet of Olara was once a beautiful place of sprawling mountain ranges, breathtaking oceans, vast shorelines, and millions of species of plants and animals. In the time before the spawn of A. I. and the Techno Organic Virus,…
Open Worlds Here is an assignment I wrote regarding World Building in Writing for Games: Planet: Olara In the not too distant future, the planet Olara (O-La-Ra) is ravaged by a Techno-Organic Virus. Ninety percent of the planet has been taken over by A.I. that has assimilated all of the planet’s resources into binary code. Seventy-Five percent…
This video was created for my Full Sail University MFA in Creative Writing Portfolio 1 course. We were asked to reflect on our time in the course, our lives, our careers, and where we would like to go.
The last month has been one of the strangest and most challenging that I can remember. This is not just a blog post about my journey, but I think of all people. Lives have been completely flipped upside down. In the last two weeks I have had to start working from home, running a department…
This post is here to act as a reminder of ways of I can use my creative writing skills and education to improve things in my current field and job.
I recently returned to work after being home for eight weeks on paternity leave after my wife gave birth to our second child. Getting back into the swing of balancing, commuting, work, kids, household duties, hosting a podcast, developing another one, and school has been a real challenge. I developed a method and workflow that…
Enneagram Looking at the Enneagram model, I gravitated to “The Giver,” type two. When thinking about the internal journey Ben must take to realize his goals and spark out on adventure, I thought about what it would be like for someone who is the opposite. The Giver is someone who cares more for others than they do…
So this week we started up again after the short winter break for the holidays. Honestly those two weeks felt a lot longer. I am both excited and nervous about this class. I am really looking forward to maintaining a high level of quality work, but I am nervous about time management. I’ve also just…
So we are coming to end of the month and of another course in the MFA. The Art of Visual Storytelling with Professor Michael Merriam was really an eye opening course. I truly enjoyed it. It was challenging, fast paced, engaging, exciting, and funny. If this is what I have to look forward to I…
I created this meme for fun as I was sitting up late at night working on a couple of homework assignments. I thought it felt really fitting.