Around Narrative Design And Applied Games
Pietro PolsinelliHere you'll find posts about game design, narrative design, game production and applied games. I work on video games, board games, applied games (games for health, museums experiences et similia) and theatrical performance design and writing.
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Becoming Saint mobile released and further experiments in narrative design
Becoming Saint, our medieval strategy game of faith, sins, penitence & conquest, is now available for tablets and phones, here is a little trailer:
Available on both Apple’s App Store and Google Play.
In Open Lab we are constantly experim...
Every day a Voight-Kampff Test
Voight-Kampff test scene from the movie Blade Runner
New media, new tool, we get used to it, and develop sensitivity and resistance. Now we can all smell LLM-generated texts, triplets, a flow of em-dashes, symmetrical paragraphs, bullshit...
Presenting narrative for a roguelike at IVIPRO Days in Trieste
Pic by Romi Abatangelo @ IVIPRO Days 2025
How one can merge intersect immerse evoke a layered, partially generative narrative in a short-loop roguelike game? And what about replayability? This is the question I recently tried to answer / d...
The dissolution of the hero(ine)
Power coming from the bees’ collective - in Santissima Annunziata square in Florence, Italy.
Lately, I’ve been reflecting on the kinds of representation of the player in games: in our games too, the player is most often represented as a ki...
Incremental Narrative Design In Becoming Saint
What role can narrative design play in a roguelike game? We see in the following how in Open Lab, thanks also to narrative design, we have progressively added narrative sections, layers and depth to Becoming Saint, a strategic and managemen...
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Made \ud83d\udefc Roller Drama, Football Drama (vgs), Eutopia (theatre), 30 applied vgs. Making Becoming Saint (vg), The Game (theatre). Clueless with intense fever dreams. I'm with the Ciompi's. He/Him \ud83c\udf08 All the projects: open-lab.com
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