Scented Days: Exploring the Capacity of Smell Narratives
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Scented Days is a working prototype narrative game that uses timed olfactory cues delivered by scent emitters to encode plot beats and simulate loss of olfactory senses tied to post COVID anosmia. The project builds bespoke scent blends and aligns them to scenes so that specific smells mark memory, absence, and reveal, showing that scented media can carry narrative information and provoke measurable emotional shifts in play tests. Scent emitters are integrated and the demonstration succeeds at making smell a core game mechanic.
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