What ‘Dear Esther’ means for the future of gaming
What if games had no gameplay? What if they were simply an imaginative story, created only to throw the player into a world unlike any other? Dear Esther is a source mod that was created at the University of Portsmouth after a professor posed the idea of creating a game that was based around the narrative, rather than the gameplay. What came out of this was a ‘game’ that had no shooting, and no puzzles. Just sheer uncut storytelling. But where will this lead within the industry?
