VR Experience

2nd Civil War VR

A voice-activated VR branching narrative that dropped you into an insurgent-occupied American city and made you choose a side. World premiere at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival.

Client Moth+Flame VR
My Role Writer & Narrative Designer
Platforms VR · Branching narrative · Immersive theater
Year 2019
Title card for 2nd Civil War VR, on a white background with the title spelled out through American flag imagery.
About

Which side are you on?

A vision of the very-near future, where civil war has fractured the United States. You're dropped into an insurgent-occupied city with a mission: learn the truth on the ground, make contact with the inner circle of the rebellion, and decide where you stand. I co-wrote the branching narrative and interactive structure for a story that asked what it would actually feel like to be inside a divided America, told in the first person, through choices with life-and-death stakes.

The experience premiered at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival with a live immersive theater wrap-around that placed players inside a military debriefing room before they entered VR.

The 2nd Civil War VR installation at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival, showing a street-art-covered installation booth with 'I Want You For U.S. Army' poster, an American flag, and graffiti reading 'We Take The 2nd Civil War,' with a visitor seated inside being briefed by a costumed actor.
Inside the 2nd Civil War VR experience: an actor in military fatigues sits at a desk studying maps in a room decorated with an American flag and a large map of the United States, while a visitor in a VR headset views the experience in an adjacent space.
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