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Indigenous Storytelling as Game Design and Narrative

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Indigenous storytelling provokes unique games - traditional storytelling techniques and structures transform game design and mechanics, while the content and teachings of traditional, historical and family stories inform game narrative. In the social impact game Survivance (Wisdom of the Elders, 2011), players choose real-world quests in a non-linear journey inspired by West Coast Native American storytellers and elders. Players are empowered by completing quests with "acts of survivance," which revives indigenous stories and generates new stories using technology and art in our modern context. Through Survivance, players experience storytelling as gameplay and develop into storytellers who lift up their communities.

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