Ethan Werner

Game Projects

Team HERBL (Hampton Henderson, Rachel Anderson, Boyan Wang, Luis Fialho)
[CMST 35954 Alternate Reality Games, cotaught by Patrick Jagoda & Heidi Coleman at the University of Chicago. Fall 2024]

  • “The Artificial Author” – A transmedia trail that takes participants down a rabbit hole to discover a fictitious author’s true secret, ending in a virtual live event.
  • “The Dramatic Proposal” – An interactive & dramatized tour of the Logan Center at the University of Chicago in which the tour group must solve puzzles to assist the tour guide with their proposal.

With Danielle Momoh and Claire Gary.
[CMST 32350, Black Game Studies, cotaught by Ashlyn Sparrow & Patrick Jagoda at the University of Chicago. Winter 2025]

  • Center City Mall – A duel-narrative dress-up, horror game that investigates themes of absence in a commodified environment. The game is played through the perspective of a white female reseller intruding into an abandoned mall and unknowingly disrespecting the space of the unhoused people living there.
*Moodboard from the Center City Mall proposal

Team HERBL (Hampton Henderson, Rachel Anderson, Boyan Wang, Luis Fialho)
[CMST 35954 Alternate Reality Games, cotaught by Patrick Jagoda & Heidi Coleman at the University of Chicago. Fall 2024]

  • “Welcome to the Real World” – A foray into a high-stakes, cyberpunk world rife with corporate espionage, brainwashing plots, and duplicitous AI created for graduating high school students.