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Monday, August 21 • 16:00 - 17:00
What Stories do to Your Brain

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Description:
Stories enchant our audiences and stay in our minds for months and years. Research shows that while participating in stories (through reading, watching, playing), many areas of our brains are activated.
In key moments, the brain chemistry is flooding our system with dopamin, a chemical messenger that plays a major role in reward-motivated behaviour, the same as drugs do. So, is storytelling a drug?
This talk will be about what stories have to offer Games to loop in an audience and keep their attention, and passion, alive.

Take Away
Knowledge on how storytelling affects players and how we can use that to impress our audience.

Audience Adressed: Designers of story-heavy games
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avatar for Lena Falkenhagen

Lena Falkenhagen

Narrative Designer, 1narrative
Designing worlds, telling stories and creating characters professionally for over twenty years now, I have published 9 original novels, worked on countless tabletop RPG extensions and designed world and content of Drakensang Online browser game for 5 years. For the past 4 years, I... Read More →

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avatar for Lena Falkenhagen

Lena Falkenhagen

Narrative Designer, 1narrative
Designing worlds, telling stories and creating characters professionally for over twenty years now, I have published 9 original novels, worked on countless tabletop RPG extensions and designed world and content of Drakensang Online browser game for 5 years. For the past 4 years, I... Read More →

Monday August 21, 2017 16:00 - 17:00 CEST
[RSP] Channel 4 - Haunted House Stage 4th Floor CONGRESS CENTRE EAST Congress-Centrum Ost Koelnmesse Deutz-Mühlheimer Straße 51 D – 50679 Cologne
  Story Design