Writing

A Framework for Game Narrative Analysis

A framework for analyzing video game narratives by examining both embedded (authored) and emergent (player-created) storytelling, using Papers, Please as a case study.

Digital Boundaries and Human Autonomy in Serial Experiments Lain

An analysis of how digital systems blur identity, erode autonomy, and enforce surveillance-driven control.

Complicity and Collapse in MOUTHWASHING

An exploration of how MOUTHWASHING denies agency, implicating the player in cycles of guilt, helplessness, and moral collapse.

When Rules Write the Story: Exploring Once Upon a Time

A study of how players, rules, and social dynamics shape narratives in the collaborative card game Once Upon a Time.