Emmett Furey
@emmettfurey.bsky.social
Writer and narrative designer for Silent Hill: Ascension, Ingress, and Dungeons & Dragons.
Scholar of all forms of participatory art: Larp, TTRPGs, ARGs, video games.
Player of Magic the Gathering and Marvel Snap.
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Scholar of all forms of participatory art: Larp, TTRPGs, ARGs, video games.
Player of Magic the Gathering and Marvel Snap.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/emmettfurey
June 21, 2025 at 10:17 PM
June 21, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Checking out the Commander at Home game with @goberthicks.bsky.social & @bmkibler.bsky.social.
If you look close, you can see me in the intro!
If you look close, you can see me in the intro!
June 21, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Checking out the Commander at Home game with @goberthicks.bsky.social & @bmkibler.bsky.social.
If you look close, you can see me in the intro!
If you look close, you can see me in the intro!
What do H.G. Wells and the Vietnam War have to do with Dungeons & Dragons? And how have #TTRPGs influenced other forms of participatory art?
Check out the latest installment of Narrative Evolution to find out!
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Check out the latest installment of Narrative Evolution to find out!
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The Roleplaying of Narrative
So far in this series, we’ve discussed a number of different participatory art forms. Branching forms that offer the ability to make decisions on behalf of characters at specific interactive touchpoin...
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June 3, 2025 at 6:39 PM
What do H.G. Wells and the Vietnam War have to do with Dungeons & Dragons? And how have #TTRPGs influenced other forms of participatory art?
Check out the latest installment of Narrative Evolution to find out!
#writer #narrativedesigner #DnD
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Check out the latest installment of Narrative Evolution to find out!
#writer #narrativedesigner #DnD
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In part two of my discussion of themed entertainment, I discuss Disney's #GalacticStarcruiser.
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The Theming of Narrative Part II
Last article, we explored themed entertainment, largely through the lens of Galaxy’s Edge, the “Star Wars” land at Disney parks. Galaxy’s Edge opened in Disneyland in May of 2019, but about two years ...
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January 2, 2025 at 7:40 PM
In part two of my discussion of themed entertainment, I discuss Disney's #GalacticStarcruiser.
#writer #narrativedesigner #themedentertainment
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Part I of two of an exploration of themed entertainment, through the lens of #StarWars.
Part 1 is about Galaxy's Edge, Disney's Star Wars land.
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Part 1 is about Galaxy's Edge, Disney's Star Wars land.
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The Theming of Narrative Part I
I’ve loved the “Star Wars” saga for as long as I can remember. I was first introduced to the saga when my parents took me to see “Return of the Jedi” in a second run theater in 1984.
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January 2, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Part I of two of an exploration of themed entertainment, through the lens of #StarWars.
Part 1 is about Galaxy's Edge, Disney's Star Wars land.
#writer #narrativedesigner #themedentertainment
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Part 1 is about Galaxy's Edge, Disney's Star Wars land.
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Through narrative design, reality can wear a mask of fiction.
And Alternate Reality Games are one of the most compelling ways to create that kind of experience.
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And Alternate Reality Games are one of the most compelling ways to create that kind of experience.
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The Alternate Reality of Narrative
When the online video streaming platform YouTube launched in 2005, none of us could have predicted how ubiquitous it would one day become in our daily lives. In providing a distribution platform for a...
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December 26, 2024 at 9:05 PM
Through narrative design, reality can wear a mask of fiction.
And Alternate Reality Games are one of the most compelling ways to create that kind of experience.
#writer #narrativedesigner #alternaterealitygames
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And Alternate Reality Games are one of the most compelling ways to create that kind of experience.
#writer #narrativedesigner #alternaterealitygames
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Choices are meaningful when they have a measurable effect on the story as it unfolds.
And choices are meaningful when they are mutually exclusive, when making one choice closes the door on any number of other possible options.
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And choices are meaningful when they are mutually exclusive, when making one choice closes the door on any number of other possible options.
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The Branching of Narrative
“It follows that [for Happenings] audiences should be eliminated entirely.”- Allan Kaprow In our last article, we discussed immersive theater pieces like “Sleep No More,” which enfranchise their audie...
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December 19, 2024 at 10:12 PM
Choices are meaningful when they have a measurable effect on the story as it unfolds.
And choices are meaningful when they are mutually exclusive, when making one choice closes the door on any number of other possible options.
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And choices are meaningful when they are mutually exclusive, when making one choice closes the door on any number of other possible options.
#writer #narrativedesigner
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This installment is about immersive theater.
Specifically, experiences that run multiple scenes simultaneously in different locations, forcing you to make choices about what you see, and when you see it.
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Specifically, experiences that run multiple scenes simultaneously in different locations, forcing you to make choices about what you see, and when you see it.
#writer #narrativedesigner #sleepnomore
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December 17, 2024 at 10:33 PM
This installment is about immersive theater.
Specifically, experiences that run multiple scenes simultaneously in different locations, forcing you to make choices about what you see, and when you see it.
#writer #narrativedesigner #sleepnomore
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Specifically, experiences that run multiple scenes simultaneously in different locations, forcing you to make choices about what you see, and when you see it.
#writer #narrativedesigner #sleepnomore
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An interstitial piece, laying out the direction for the remainder of the series.
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What's Next?
So, these last six articles have laid the groundwork for our discussion of the participatory arts. And as we transition into the next part of this series, I thought it might be a good idea to devote a...
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December 17, 2024 at 10:25 PM
An interstitial piece, laying out the direction for the remainder of the series.
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#writer #narrativedesigner #immersive
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An article about the dangers of passing off fiction for fact.
On social media bubbles and how easily we are manipulated.
And how prone we are as human beings to get things entirely wrong.
#writer #narrativedesigner #transparency
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On social media bubbles and how easily we are manipulated.
And how prone we are as human beings to get things entirely wrong.
#writer #narrativedesigner #transparency
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The Transparency of Narrative
I’ve said in this series that the more life-like an artistic experience is, the more meaningful it can be. And that is true, up to a point.
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December 12, 2024 at 8:17 PM
An article about the dangers of passing off fiction for fact.
On social media bubbles and how easily we are manipulated.
And how prone we are as human beings to get things entirely wrong.
#writer #narrativedesigner #transparency
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On social media bubbles and how easily we are manipulated.
And how prone we are as human beings to get things entirely wrong.
#writer #narrativedesigner #transparency
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When a piece of art enables you to suspend your disbelief, what you experience is called immersion.
And the ability of participatory art to facilitate in its audience a profound suspension of disbelief is the primary goal of the entire movement.
#writer #narrativedesigner #suspensionofdisbelief
And the ability of participatory art to facilitate in its audience a profound suspension of disbelief is the primary goal of the entire movement.
#writer #narrativedesigner #suspensionofdisbelief
The Immersiveness of Narrative
Rituals, we’ve established, are powered by belief, and ritualized participatory narrative experiences are powered by the suspension of disbelief. When a piece of art enables you to suspend your disbel...
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December 10, 2024 at 6:29 PM
When a piece of art enables you to suspend your disbelief, what you experience is called immersion.
And the ability of participatory art to facilitate in its audience a profound suspension of disbelief is the primary goal of the entire movement.
#writer #narrativedesigner #suspensionofdisbelief
And the ability of participatory art to facilitate in its audience a profound suspension of disbelief is the primary goal of the entire movement.
#writer #narrativedesigner #suspensionofdisbelief
Narrative Designer is a title that is typically limited to video games, but I've chosen to use it to describe all participatory artists.
If participatory art enables audience choice, the architecture of that agency has to be designed.
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If participatory art enables audience choice, the architecture of that agency has to be designed.
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The Design of Narrative
We’ve established so far that participatory art is ritualistic in the sense that it’s transformative. We’ve further said that all participatory art features some level of game-like agency, and it is t...
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December 5, 2024 at 6:02 AM
Narrative Designer is a title that is typically limited to video games, but I've chosen to use it to describe all participatory artists.
If participatory art enables audience choice, the architecture of that agency has to be designed.
#writer #narrativedesigner
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If participatory art enables audience choice, the architecture of that agency has to be designed.
#writer #narrativedesigner
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Play is fundamental to our development as human beings.
Play permission is about reminding people that gaming is for everyone
And participatory artists give permission to audiences to play in the narrative sandbox with them.
#writer #narrativedesigner #play
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Play permission is about reminding people that gaming is for everyone
And participatory artists give permission to audiences to play in the narrative sandbox with them.
#writer #narrativedesigner #play
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The Playfulness of Narrative
Narrative Correlationism, we’ve said, defines participatory art as “ritualized behavior permeated by play,” borrowing nomenclature from Richard Schechner. (1) Traditional narrative forms are discursiv...
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December 4, 2024 at 2:07 AM
Play is fundamental to our development as human beings.
Play permission is about reminding people that gaming is for everyone
And participatory artists give permission to audiences to play in the narrative sandbox with them.
#writer #narrativedesigner #play
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Play permission is about reminding people that gaming is for everyone
And participatory artists give permission to audiences to play in the narrative sandbox with them.
#writer #narrativedesigner #play
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Participatory art - like ritual - is transformative.
Rituals are powered by belief. Ritualized participatory art is powered by the suspension of disbelief.
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Rituals are powered by belief. Ritualized participatory art is powered by the suspension of disbelief.
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The Ritual of Narrative
There is a strong case to be made that the forerunner of narrative art as we know it today may have been the distinctly human phenomenon of ritual performance, a practice which was participatory by it...
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November 26, 2024 at 9:29 PM
Participatory art - like ritual - is transformative.
Rituals are powered by belief. Ritualized participatory art is powered by the suspension of disbelief.
#writer #narrativedesigner #ritual
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Rituals are powered by belief. Ritualized participatory art is powered by the suspension of disbelief.
#writer #narrativedesigner #ritual
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Realized afterwards that I was at negative life at the time, and I should have lost as soon as my Platinum Angel stopped being a Platinum Angel.
Still, it was a hell of a journey!
Still, it was a hell of a journey!
November 25, 2024 at 9:55 PM
Realized afterwards that I was at negative life at the time, and I should have lost as soon as my Platinum Angel stopped being a Platinum Angel.
Still, it was a hell of a journey!
Still, it was a hell of a journey!
Participatory art is any form that enables the audience to make choices that impact their experience of the narrative.
In this installment we discuss one of the cornerstones of participatory art: audience agency.
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In this installment we discuss one of the cornerstones of participatory art: audience agency.
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The Agency of Narrative
The goal of art is to imitate life. And by extension, the more thoroughly a piece of artwork can simulate life, the more meaningful that art can ultimately be.
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November 25, 2024 at 9:49 PM
Participatory art is any form that enables the audience to make choices that impact their experience of the narrative.
In this installment we discuss one of the cornerstones of participatory art: audience agency.
#writer #narrativedesigner #immersive #agency
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In this installment we discuss one of the cornerstones of participatory art: audience agency.
#writer #narrativedesigner #immersive #agency
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