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Royal Shakespeare Company enters game development with new title Lili


The Royal Shakespeare Company announced it's making its first video game alongside iNK Stories, an adaptation of MacBeth called Lili.

It pushes the boundaries of storytelling, marking an inflection point in the depth of expression within commercial video games and expanding the creative vision of the RSC into new, interactive territory.” Lili tells its Lady Macbeth-inspired story through the medium of screens, as players follow the character through security cameras and personal devices. Emma Smith, an RSC board member who worked on the play-to-game text adaptation, added, “Lili takes up Shakespeare’s character-based exploration of political ambition, personal compromise, and distorted human lives under tyranny, and transports these themes to contemporary Iran.

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