narrative

How do you adapt a title where each player has a unique experience? By disappointing a lot of people.Picture a galaxy, a little like our own. It has all the same planets from our home system, yet encompasses so much...

Rebirth is the best of a highly acclaimed seriesThe third installment in the Amnesia horror series, subtitled Rebirth, had huge clown shoes to fill in following on from the much-loved Amnesia: The Dark Descent. Released...

Narrative Looping in Elementary Schools — Intermediate — The First Duty: PreludePhoto by Shot by Cerqueira on UnsplashHere is the text I shared with the intermediate students about a week before Boss Level...

Narrative Looping in Elementary Schools — Intermediate — The First Duty: Chapter 1Photo by Monica Garniga on UnsplashThis Boss Level was the third I had done. I felt fairly comfortable with the format and...

Narrative Looping in Elementary Schools — Junior — The Crimson Threat: Chapter 1Photo by Henry Hustava on UnsplashHere is the first chapter and design tasks for the junior Boss Level. I began with the...

Darner's Digest is a series of blog posts about Yarn Spinner, a free open source Unity dialogue tree plugin.On December 21st, 2021, the Yarn Spinner project finally made its public YS v2.0 for Unity release. YS 2.0 has...

In the previous episode, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza were eating as guests of the Duke and Duchess, when their chaplain’s speech made the knight seethe with anger. He rose and delivered a searing riposte, which led...

A relatively recent secular tradition of Christmas in Europe and elsewhere is the seasonal story. Some develop the theme of the long, dark nights of the winter with ghosts and the paranormal, but in both literature and...

They tell me that when people wake up in the middle of the night randomly, it usually means they are going through great change. Their brains have been processing this for the first five hours of sleep and now have...

Christopher Booker’s analysis of literary narratives into The Seven Basic Plots follows a long tradition of analysis which goes back to Aristotle’s Poetics, which dates from around 335 BCE. Having completed my...

Each year I take a look back at some of the many fine and fascinating paintings from a century ago. They serve as a reminder of how rich and varied art has been, and how distorted a view we can get from modern accounts...

In this post, part of a series on the new journal Memory, Mind & Media, Katie Laker interviews Robyn Fivush, whose article, co-authored with Ariel Grysman, is entitled: 'Narrative and gender as mutually constituted...

Despite what I said in yesterday's post, it wasn't until this afternoon that I found time to log in to New World to see what the Void had brought. Maybe that should be "wrought". Seems more appropriately...

I've written previously about murder in Skyrim, epic Skyrim fan game Enderal, and a very bushy Skyrim mod called The Forgotten City. Since then, the mod makers have remade it into a UE4 standalone time loop first person...

Back in April I gave a talk at An Event Apart Spring Summit. The talk was called The State Of The Web, and I’ve published the transcript. I’ve also published the video. I put a lot of work into this talk and I think...

Clara Han’s Seeing Like a Child: Inheriting the Korean War (Fordham University Press, 2021) describes war’s dispersal into everyday life, intimacy and the domestic. Departing from genres of testimony, as well as...