by Anastasia Salter
about Anastasia Salter
Anastasia Salter is an associate professor of Games and Interactive Media at the University of Central Florida. She is the author of What is Your Quest? From Adventure Games to Interactive Books and Jane Jensen: Gabriel Knight, Adventure Games, Hidden Objects, and co-author of Toxic Geek Masculinity in Media and Flash: Building the Interactive Web.
King’s Quest
Abstract: Games struggle with the apparent tension between interactivity and narrative as imposed story structures and goals restrict a player’s agency in shaping their own experience through play. Anastasia Salter examines how the rebooted King’s Quest series embraces the potential of games as a space for character-driven interactive narrative, where story becomes the motivation for exploration.