Shakespeare-Inspired Game ‘Hail Macbeth’ Challenges Interactive Storytelling Boundaries

Italian theater director Paolo Sacerdoti is making his gaming debut with “Hail Macbeth,” an interactive adaptation of Shakespeare’s tragedy that blurs the line between player, character and fate. The third-person narrative game, currently in development at Sacerdoti’s independent Milan-based Specto Studio, reimagines the relationship between player agency and predetermined narrative in ways that push interactive […]