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Designer perspectives on agency in immersive storytelling.

Proceduralizing Shakespeare

Proceduralizing Shakespeare

Tabletop Roleplaying Game “Forsooth” provides a framework to improvise new Shakespeare plays in real time.
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Sam Liberty
Dec 14, 2020
Beyond the “Zoom Play” — :robot_face: Creates a New Kind of Mediated Performance

Beyond the “Zoom Play” — :robot_face: Creates a New Kind of Mediated Performance

With :robot_face:, Seattle’s Dacha Theatre manages to move beyond the Zoom play, creating a truly immersive and interactive screen-based…
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Celia Pearce
Sep 10, 2020
The Lesser Players Tale: Postmortem

The Lesser Players Tale: Postmortem

by Lizzie Stark & Jason Morningstar
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Celia Pearce
Aug 19, 2020
How Marie Kondo Designs for Participation

How Marie Kondo Designs for Participation

If you’re anything like me, you lost a week of January to Tidying Up with Marie Kondo, Netflix’s reality show featuring the titular…
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Lizzie Stark
Apr 17, 2019
Design Review: Sinking Ship Creations’ “The Mortality Machine”

Design Review: Sinking Ship Creations’ “The Mortality Machine”

Sinking Ship’s latest interactive theater piece does very well at making live roleplaying games accessible to general audiences.
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Caro Murphy
Feb 13, 2019
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