Ghost in the Empathy Machine: Exploring Player-Character Connection in Life is Strange: True Colors

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Life Is Strange: True Colors
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Life Is Strange: True Colors (2021)
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In this 2022 GDC session, Deck Nine Games' Zak Garriss and Jon Zimmerman explore the evolution of empathy as a fundamental mechanic of narrative adventure games and why they chose to render this mechanic explicit in the design of Alex's empathy power in Life is Strange: True Colors

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