Kelsey Hess is a game producer bridging the gap between production and product in emerging technology.

Light Trash, her interactive VR experience about light pollution, premiered in 2018. She is an indie game creator, with a previous career in investigative journalism.

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Kelsey visits the Institute of Creative Technologies, University of Southern California in Playa Vista, California in 2018.

Kelsey visits the Institute of Creative Technologies, University of Southern California in Playa Vista, California in 2018.

 

Important Ideas:

ludonarrative dissonance

the conflict between

the video game’s narrative

told through the story

+ the video game’s narrative

told through the gameplay

high-tech | high-touch

embracing technology

that preserves our humanness

and rejecting technology

that intrudes upon it