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

School of Art, Design and Architecture

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

@conference{8a0bfa50a6b94fb290f76894e826c7fc,

title = "Intimacy and Immersion: How Walking Simulators Use Poetic Mechanics and {\textquoteleft}Play, Don{\textquoteright}t Tell{\textquoteright} to Negotiate Narrative and Player Agency",

keywords = "wandering games, video games, intimacy, immersion, interactive storytelling, playable stories",

author = "Hannah Wood",

year = "2019",

month = jul,

day = "10",

language = "English",

note = "Wandering Games Conference 2019 ; Conference date: 10-07-2019 Through 12-07-2019",

url = "http://wandering-games-conference.bangor.ac.uk/index.php.en",

}