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Tag: narrative design

3.3.2024

Moving From Gratuitous Violence To Diplomacy

Could games be used as systems for a more ethical narrative instead of always opting for violence?

  • Features
11.2.2022

Educating Interactive Narrative Designers -- Is it possible to teach Storytelling?

Students could benefit from interactive narrative design courses in video game education.

  • Game Research Highlights
21.1.2022

The Empathy Spectrum: Emotional Responses to Games and Narrative

How can emotional responses to games be effectively categorised for better distinction to improve narrative design and character development? The Empathy Spectrum provides a tool for an analytical approach to video game storytelling.

  • Game Research Highlights
wide shot of the old and crumbling asylum bilding in evening sunshine
11.5.2021

Ambitious Goals, Poor Narrative Design: The Town of Light Review

The Town of Light had a lot of potential, but unfortunately the end result doesn’t impress.

  • Game Reviews
5.3.2021

Inconsistency Is the Bane of Escape Rooms

Padlocks and digital clocks in escape room supposedly set in 19th-century witch's hut? So-called escape room logic is banal and plagues many escape room companies, but there are other ways of room design.

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