Mike Marrotte

A project like Sleepy Planet – described as a mythopoeic, interactive storytelling ecosystem – explicitly aims to build a world of symbols and archetypes that users can explore. Its design principles of nonlinearity and symbolic recursion suggest that stories can be experienced more like a mythology than a scripted novel. For instance, a player

Meow Wolf’s work has been described as gently drawing people into a broader narrative universe through play, and indeed they have expanded their storytelling across multiple locations that interconnect into a shared “mythology.” The House of Eternal Return stands as a proof-of-concept that stories can be told not just in books or on screens, but in

Post-heroic stories are less about strength and more about compassion. Like the rich body of old European stories about the quest for the Grail, in which the question the adventuring knight must ask in order to gain the Grail, heal the wound of the Fisher King, and so heal the Wasteland, is a simple, pointed, empathic, ‘What ails thee?’ The answer