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Hold 'X' To Pay Respects: Systems vs. Stories

gregab
April 28, 2015
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Hold 'X' To Pay Respects: Systems vs. Stories

A talk I delivered in the Civic Media group's lecture series at the MIT Media Lab about emergent stories in games, ludonarrative dissonance, my thesis on digital-physical board games, my work in generative comics, and bots.

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April 28, 2015
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  1. Hold ‘X’ To Pay Respects: Systems vs. Stories Greg Borenstein

    MIT Media Lab, Playful Systems @atduskgreg
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  29. https://github.com/dariusk/NaNoGenMo-2014/issues/70

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  41. Thanks. Greg Borenstein MIT Media Lab, Playful Systems @atduskgreg