thinking about this birdsite thread
https://twitter.com/StardustCstaway/status/1011657919404937217
and I had a different question, sorta related: what are the games (or other interactive experiences) in the past five years or so that are most opinionated about what a narrative even is, or how a narrative works?
my list of games like this would be something like... Colossal Cave Adventure (a story is rooms and objects); Her Story (a story is a search engine); 80 Days (a story is a directed graph gated by simulation); Fallen London (a story is a deck of cards); etc. (not all from the bast five years obviously, but that's sort of what I'm thinking about)
@aparrish Space Station 13 (a story is live improv)
@aparrish and I think there is a distinction between games that invite the player to make up their own story (I guess that is sandbox gameplay?) like crusader kings and minecraft and ones that deliver a specific set of events to tell a story.
@aparrish The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (a story is something I can't mention without revealing a great deal)
@hackerfriendly that's next on my to-play list actually!
@aparrish If you're a fan of Edith Finch, I think you'll enjoy it. Powerful ending.