
What are current design trends and solutions for the genre’s challenges? To find some answers to these questions, we’ll be playing Return of the Obra Dinn and one or two Sam Barlow games (Her Story, Telling Lies, Immortality) . The following short reading will guide our discussion:
Rittenhouse, Brad, et al. “Structures of Interaction for Creating Dramatic Agency in Epistemic Narratives: Return of the Obra Dinn and Telling Lies as Design Exemplars.” Entertainment Computing, vol. 44, Jan. 2023, p. 100520. ScienceDirect, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.entcom.2022.100520.
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Contact: Toni Pape (t.pape@uva.nl)