Playing with Stories: Narrative and Interactivity

Catalog description

From branching YouTube videos to major digital games to immersive theatre, more and more forms of storytelling are including audience participation. This course explores different techniques of audience interaction and agency to see how narratives change when users take a more active role and to discover effective tropes of interaction for story. Students look at work from a variety of media from the web to games to performance to user generated system to see how they work and what new work can be made with those forms.