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Joseph Cambell

A Puppet Explains the Monomyth

26/06/2013 by Adam Clare

Joseph Cambell’s monomyth theory is better known as “The Hero’s Journey”, which is a common approach to storytelling. Everything from Star Wars to Dredd reflects it.

These puppets (Glove and Boots) do a great job of explaining it:

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Adam Clare

I'm Adam Clare I make games at Wero Creative and think about games as a Professor of Game Desgin. I wrote a book on how to make escape games and another book on Pokemon GO.

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