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The Games@Northeastern Lecture Series is an event where Northeastern faculty members invite academic and industry experts to share their knowledge and insights on games with the Northeastern community, the games community in the Greater Boston Area, and beyond.

Object-Narratives and Keepsake Games

Shing Yin Khor talks about building narratives with physical objects, a practice rooted in theatrical prop making, large scale art installation, immersive theatre and LARP, and keepsake games, games in which the process of playing the game results in a physical artifact of play.

Shing Yin Khor is a graphic novelist and experience designer based in Los Angeles, CA, by way of Malacca, Malaysia. Their game design work, which includes the 2022 Indiecade winner for Best Tabletop Game, Remember August, and the keepsake embroidery game A Mending(which raised $190k on Kickstarter), centers around physical storytelling artifacts, divination mechanisms, and immigrant interpretations of nostalgic Americana, and is rooted in their work as a builder and artist – keepsake games and large art installations centered on the bridge between physical making and traditional tabletop RPGs.

Their second graphic novel, The Legend of Auntie Po, was published by Penguin Random House in June 2021, and was an Eisner winner and National Book Award in Youth Literature finalist. They are currently working on their third full-length graphic novel and a deck of tarot cards, as well as adjunct teaching at USC Games.