Re-imagining literature as games has been an idle pastime of mine for some time now. I’ve loosely designed games for works as diverse as Lewis Carroll’s Alice Through the Looking Glass (logic puzzle chess), Clive Barker’s Abarat(MMO), the traditional folktale of Jorinda and Joringel (strategy/sim), and Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged (inverse Civ style game, and [...]
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Working At Cross Purposes?
July 8, 2008 – 8:10 am
At first blush, it would seem that game narratives make use of a convention that is found in no other narrative medium. I’m not just talking about the use of ludic elements either–that’s too obvious. After all, as I try and demonstrate quite frequently here at Man Bytes Blog, it’s not that difficult to assess [...]
