Narrative Design

One of the leading innovators in narrative design has a fascinating new game

Game author Emily Short—together with AI architect Richard Evans and game language designer Graham Nelson—has a multidirectional, totally fictional, new 240,000 word book. Ahem, game. But because Blood & Laurels is interactive fiction, you’ll only read a fraction of it your first time through, as yo

Rabbit meets and woos woman, beautiful card game ensues

As is so often the case with falling in love, the first attraction to Poupée de Son is physical: “I could see myself with this good-looking person; I could see myself playing this card game gorgeously illustrated with rabbits and brides.”  But that’s just the start. This attractive game you were jus