The History and Allure of Interactive Visual Novels

＂An analysis of historical and current trends in game studies and visual novels, with a focus on narrative structure, ludic interactivity and subgenres＂--

Mark Kretzschmar is a video game scholar and holds a PhD in Texts & Technology from the University of Central Florida, USA.

Sara Raffel is a narrative and technical communication scholar in the English department at the University of Central Florida, USA.