Emilie Simond - Game Designer
Game Writings
Worldbuilding in Dystopian Video Games (Thesis)
In dystopian games, worldbuilding relies on visual and interactive elements inherent to the medium. These elements contribute to the world's believability and reflect themes, ideas, cultural nuances, and social elements associated with dystopian fiction.
Interactivity also offers unique opportunities to explore dystopian themes, as players can navigate, interact with, and influence a dystopian world in profound ways.
Embedded Narrative and Critical Horror Games
Horror games often place players in a helpless situation, providing little to no agency to alter the narrative. However, they still manage to create complex stories through the use of embedded narrative, which often offer a critique of the story and its themes.
Re-Understanding Flow through Hack and Slash
The aim of this paper is to revisit the definition of flow using the DDE framework. The text discuss the balance between the player's skills and the game's difficulty and how it can be influenced by design decissions, namely game rules and feedbacks.
