Playable Stories: Marlène
A conversation on narrative design and how games can become a medium for personal and meaningful storytelling.
Into Storymode reimagines games and technology not just as tools for excitement, but as a medium for storytelling, reflection, and meaningful human experience.
We bring together conversations, practices, and tools that help stories become interactive.
About Into Storymode
Into Storymode is an initiative exploring how games and interactive technology can become a medium for storytelling, reflection, and meaningful human experience.
Whether you have a story to express or want your story to engage others — we work between storytelling and interaction, helping ideas take form through play.
Upcoming event
Join us for our next session exploring how stories can become playable.
Latest writing
Thoughts, experiments, and reflections on storytelling, games, and interactive practice.
When the Mechanic Is the Message: Designing Feeling in As Long As You're Here
How Marlène Delrive and her team translated the inner experience of Alzheimer's into the grammar of play — and why every mechanic is an argument.
The Game That Kept Finding Her
At our Playable Stories evening, Marlène Delrive spoke about what happens when a piece of creative work refuses to let you go.
From Difficult Stories to Playable Experiences
A look at how As Long As You’re Here turns a difficult subject into an interactive experience, and how simple tools can help shape personal stories into playable forms.