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Session Name: Turning Comedy of Manners into Gameplay: Versu Postmortem
Speaker(s): Emily Short
Company Name(s): Linden Labs
Track / Format: Design

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Overview: Versu is a Linden Lab platform for interactive games and stories - its primary play mechanic consists of social interaction. This session will provide a postmortem discussion of the creation of Versu's first stories (set in Austen's England) and encoding 19th-century social norms for 21st-century players. Rich AI-driven character behavior and a complex dialogue engine offer the player a social universe that can be explored and manipulated to achieve a wide range of genre-appropriate outcomes: from love, marriage, and financial security to duels, social ruin, madness, and death.

GDC 2013

Emily Short

Linden Labs

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