Intimacy and Immersion: How Walking Simulators Use Poetic Mechanics and ‘Play, Don’t Tell’ to Negotiate Narrative and Player Agency

Hannah Wood

Intimacy and Immersion: How Walking Simulators Use Poetic Mechanics and ‘Play, Don’t Tell’ to Negotiate Narrative and Player Agency

Research output: Contribution to conference › Conference paper (not formally published)

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - 10 Jul 2019
Event	Wandering Games Conference 2019 - Bangor University, United Kingdom Duration: 10 Jul 2019 → 12 Jul 2019 http://wandering-games-conference.bangor.ac.uk/index.php.en

Conference

Conference	Wandering Games Conference 2019
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
Period	10/07/19 → 12/07/19
Internet address	http://wandering-games-conference.bangor.ac.uk/index.php.en

Keywords

wandering games
video games
intimacy
immersion
interactive storytelling
playable stories

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Cite this

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