Resurrection/Insurrection

Resurrection/Insurrection (R/I) is a single‐player digital experience that explores interactive empathy & projective identity by having users affect a storyworld as multiple characters on different sides of a conflict. R/I investigate how players choose to empathize with the multiple characters they embody across a fictional world, and—if those characters are put into conflict with each other—how players make meaningful choices based off previous game events, current emotional status, and future game states. ❧ R/I will disrupt the way players traditionally identify with characters, narrative, and system in a game by presenting the player with conflicting goals, difficult choices, and opposing systemic and narrative desires. Will players continue to identify with characters they embody in a game world? How much can we disrupt the player’s sense of self in that world? R/I starts with the premise that we can foster empathy & understanding in its players by making them experience the game world from multiple perspectives.