STORIENT™
Where story meets experience.
Every world EGM builds begins with the same question: how do you tell a story that doesn’t just entertain, but moves people to think, feel, and act? STORIENT™ is the framework we developed to answer it — a blend of narrative psychology and immersive design that shapes everything from Chronicles of G.A.I.A.™ to Cyberhero®.
Two disciplines, one method
STORIENT™ exists because the worlds were never built by story alone, or design alone. It’s the meeting point of two complementary practices — the science of how stories move us, and the craft of how experiences feel.
Dr. Dana Klisanin
Decades of peer-reviewed work in media psychology, moral imagination, and human development — the science of how narrative shapes belief, empathy, and behavior.
Melisca Klisanin
Award-winning design across products, spaces, and experiences — the craft of how a world looks, moves, and feels, and how people step inside it.
What STORIENT™ stands for
Eight principles // story + experience
Story Architecture
Grounding every narrative in structure and meaning.
Transformative Design
Building experiences that spark insight and change.
Organic Flow
Aligning storytelling with emotional pacing and sensory rhythm.
Responsible Ethics
Adaptable and principled across platforms and audience interactions.
Intentional Impact
Grounded in ethics, empathy, and planetary well-being.
Experience Design
Driving participation and genuine engagement.
Narrative Psychology
Informed by how story shapes belief and behavior.
Techno-Integration
Fusing story with interactive and immersive technologies.
Rooted in research, refined in practice
STORIENT™ grows out of Dr. Dana Klisanin’s Evolutionary Guidance Media framework, which draws on cognitive psychology, narrative neuroscience, systems theory, and positive psychology. It’s designed to resonate intuitively while standing on decades of research — and it’s tested every time EGM builds a new world.
Explore the research →A STORIENT™ toolkit is on the way.
We’re shaping STORIENT™ into something other creators can use. If you’d like to hear when it’s ready, we’d love to stay in touch.
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