Description: Clara Fernandez-Vara
Clara Fernandez-Vara
Menu My Games Academic Work Speaking Contact Me choice design · Detectives · Narrative Design Choose Your Own Mystery: Who Killed Harlowe Thrombey? 13 July, 2021 13 July, 2021 Clara Fernandez-Vara Leave a comment The growing interest in choice-based stories in games and television, as well as my own interest in the perennial popularity of mystery and detective stories led me to finally read Who Killed Harlowe Thrombey? (1981) by Edward Packard, an early title (#9) on the original Choose Your Own Adventure b
How do you make a choice-based whodunit interesting? One of the things that keeps us reading or watching a whodunit is that, after the crime is discovered at the beginning, the reader / audience is given snippets of information, which they try to piece together to be able to anticipate the solution to the crime before they reach the end of the story. Reportedly, this is what led Agatha Christie to write her first mystery novels, challenged by her sister to write a story that the readers could solve before r