Heavy Rain is a 2010 action-adventure video game developed by Quantic Dream and published by Sony Computer Entertainment. The game features four protagonists involved with the mystery of the Origami Killer, a serial killer who uses extended periods of rainfall to drown his victims. The player interacts with the game by performing actions highlighted on screen related to motions on the controller, and in some cases, performing a series of quick time events. The player’s decisions and actions during the game affect the narrative. Wikipedia
Research exclusive to this game
Nixon, Michael, and Jim Bizzocchi. “Press X for Meaning: Interaction Leads to Identification in Heavy Rain.” In DiGRA Conference. 2013.
Wei, Huaxin. “Structuring narrative interaction: What we can learn from Heavy Rain.” In Interactive Storytelling: Fourth International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2011, Vancouver, Canada, November 28–1 December, 2011. Proceedings 4, pp. 338-341. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.
Zagalo, Nelson. “Narrative design of sadness in heavy rain.” Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts 9, no. 2 (2017): 47-59.
Research that includes this game in its sample
Hill, Melvin G. “Tale of Two Fathers: Authenticating Fatherhood in Quantic Dream’s Heavy Rain: The Origami Killer and Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us.” In Pops in pop culture: Fatherhood, masculinity, and the new man, pp. 159-176. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2016.
Kromhout, Roelf, and Charles Forceville. “LIFE IS A JOURNEY: Source–path–goal structure in the videogames “Half-Life 2”,“Heavy Rain”, and “Grim Fandango”.” Metaphor and the Social World 3, no. 1 (2013): 100-116.