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Texts, Interfaces, and the Puzzle Element in Her Story
Sam Barlow’s 2015 computer game Her Story is barely a game. The interface is an obsolete police database stocked with seven videotaped interviews of a woman accused of a crime, broken up into clips of between ten and ninety seconds. The game is played by typing in words to search through the clips, and the database returns only the first five videos, chronologically, that contain the query. The player pieces together the mystery at the heart of the game in whatever order they choose – the primary cue that the game provides is an initial search term, “MURDER,” – and the game is ‘over’ only when the player decides they have seen enough. As they play, the game’s interface design, along with its thematic focus on liminal and reflective surfaces, incorporates the player into a system of cognitive apparatuses. Critical responses to Sam Barlow’s 2015 video game Her Story were rapturous.
Vian Rasheed - 11.11.2019 - 22:55
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Culprit
Culprit is a choose-your-own adventure screen-based game created using the interactive documentary software Klynt and inspired by the resurgence of interest in a genre that e-lit has seen as unsophisticated but is currently enjoying an uptake in popularity as interactivity goes mainstream both on handheld devices and livingroom televisions. A multi-modal murder mystery with five storypaths that intersect to provide for many more distinct readings, Culprit is set in a contemporary, urban North American city and anyone could be the murderer.
Vian Rasheed - 18.11.2019 - 15:52
