The Art of Immersive Storytelling: Strategies From the Gaming World

by Margaret Kerrison

Level up your storytelling with award-winning experience designer, world builder, and former Disney Imagineer.

Immersive experiences and interactive exhibits are popping up all over the world, telling stories that engage our imaginations and sense of play like never before.

Exploring the parallels between video games and the world’s most exciting, innovative spaces, this sequel to the groundbreaking Immersive Storytelling for Real and Imagined Worlds explains how the same techniques that pull players into games for hours at a time can be employed to draw participants into immersive experiences. Join Margaret Kerrison as she guides our next generation of immersive storytellers on a deep dive into the creative possibilities of this new realm of storytelling.

Genres: Writing

214 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 25, 2025

Reviews

[Akiva · Rating 3 out of 5]

There were definitely some useful thought prompts here, but mostly it's a high level survey and if you haven't thought about this at all, maybe more of it would be helpful, but I felt like a lot of was just kind of pointing at particular things that if you weren't already familiar with them probably wouldn't be that helpful, and if you were, sitting down and analyzing them would be more interesting. Some of the interviews with practitioners were pretty interesting. She talks about how it's hard to give too much of a guide to such a broad area (fair), but I think really going deep on some existing work so you can see behind the seams would have at least been more insightful for me.