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Permanent URL: https://mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=5207

Strip by: Manyhills

{Jon is looking at an empty fishbowl, surrounded by splashes of water. Garfield looks on smugly}
Jon: An empty fishbowl...
{Jon looks at Garfield}
Jon: Signs of a struggle, and a cat with a contented smile
Jon: Great environmental storytelling
Garfield {to reader}: Wait till he finds the skeleton

The author writes:

Environmental storytelling is the method of conveying narrative information not through direct text but through objects arranged in (you may want to sit down for this next bit) an environment: a physical environment, like the mise en scène of a theme park, or (more usually) a virtual environment, as in the world of a video game.

Alternatively, to quote games designer Ben Esposito's definition, "in game design, "environmental storytelling" is the art of placing skulls near a toilet".

Original strip: 2002-02-19.