# emergent narrative design in somewhere "somewhere" by oleomingus - an exploration and stealth garme for the pc and a true abstract encounter parallel search on google: storytelling dissonance narrative garmes system interactive the minimalist beauty and mysterious borgean desert pastel delicacy of somewhere feels like 'a garme space waiting to happen' - a proto-garme or quiet aesthetic response with expansive narrative potential yet one that feels delightfully un-confinable to any one designer's particular imposed story mode or garme type if only all the art assets and code behind such a space were made accessible to players precisely in order to see what kind of 'stories' might be generated from the same idea-base; narratives that emerge from / through ir interactions with teh garme as a system the tension or dissonance between traditional storytelling and interactive media may bypassed by utilizing garmeplay mechanics harmonized directly with art design to "suggest narrative" - 'trace out a narrative space' rather than simply attempt to "tell a story" by overlaying one on top of teh garme (often literally using text filled dialogue boxes) a garme of shifting moods and existential tones when reading / exploring writer jorge luis borges for example one senses pre-existing places far outside ordinary time - stunningly complex libraries of endless intellectual fascination grand villas with sand-covered floors reality shattering secrets hidden in vast ontological deserts hints of impossibly ancient and deliberately impractical beliefs of mysterious origin - the heavy indolic soul-cloying scent of roses in solitary dusty courtyards of dueling princes near dusk what would be nice to see a shifting landscape where room layouts change before one's eyes and the player is continually - and gladly - lost // video here // republic of bob