Until Dawn is an interactive drama survival horror adventure video game where the player controls different characters and their choices determine how the story unfolds. The game begins with a therapy session that will affect future scenes, and uses first-person perspective and breaking the fourth wall. The decisions made by the player will change each character's personality and characteristics over time. Elements of the game relate to postmodern concepts like the blurring of reality and virtual life, declining meta-narratives, and the player shaping the narrative through their choices of what actions to take.

1. UNTIL DAWN

2. Aspects of the Game
• Interactive drama survival horror adventure video
game.
• Play as/control many different characters who
have been made to look as realistic/like the actor
who voices them.
• The choices you make will affect how the game
plays out, eg who dies, when/how they die, and
what ending the game will have aka the butterfly
effect, eg, locating a weapon in an earlier chapter
may allow the player to pick it up down the line
when a chase scene leads back to the same
room.

3. Aspects of the Game
• The game begins with a therapy session with
Dr. Hill (Peter Stormare), who poses a question
to his patient; these sessions will come up in
following chapters and will affect what
contents of the game that will be shown, it
uses first person and breaking the forth wall.
• The decisions you make will actually change
the characteristic and personality of each
character.

4. Postmodernity
• Lyotard, loss of identity,
idea of the postmodern
self.
• Concept of being in
control of a virtual life and creating this
simulacra when reality blurs with virtual life
(Baudrillard).
• Simulation of reality, laying as realistic
characters/actors in an exaggerated horror
scenario, puts a lot of effort into verisimilitude
and making the game feel realistic.

5. Postmodernity
• Declining of meta narratives, once the villain
in the game is revealed you then play as the
antihero, there is no clear definition who is
good or bad in the game.
• Meta discourse as the player is figuring out
how they want the narrative to go by choosing
what to do, who to kill, what movement to
make etc.
• Elements of nudity
• for nudity’s sake.

6. • Strong critical awareness of our actions and
how the game is played.
• This sort of critical awareness that results
from our engagement with metafictional
media and narrative forms links to Linda
Hutcheon’s discussion of postmodernism in
The Politics of Postmodernism who defines the
postmodern text, ultimately, as a form of
‘paradoxically complicitous critique’.