Gaming and the Arts of Storytelling

• Main Author: Jayemanne, Darshana (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2019
• Subjects: Philosophy; play; n/a; storytelling; poetics; roleplay; survival horror; game storytelling; game narrative; pornography; empathy games; games; ludonarrative dissonance; Larry McMurtry; digital games; AAA; mapping; ludology; fantasy; fifth look; choice poetics; film; musicals; literary adaptation; choices; video games; politics; gender; interactive storytelling; FPS; narrative games; Gamergate; transmedia; remediation; narrative theory; psychology; the uncanny; shared vocabulary; complicity; ability; Haraway; videogames; Twin Peaks; Deadly Premonition; Alien; gaming; defamiliarization; ludonarrative; Walter Benjamin; narratology; carnivalesque; Bakhtin; player goals; interactive digital narrative; game fiction; cyborg
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Summary

This book examines the notion of storytelling in videogames. This topic allows new perspectives on the enduring problem of narrative in digital games, while also opening up different avenues of inquiry. The collection looks at storytelling in games from many perspectives. Topics include the remediation of Conrad's Heart of Darkness in games such as Spec Ops: The Line; the storytelling similarities in Twin Peaks and Deadly Premonition, a new concept of 'choice poetics'; the esthetics of Alien films and games, and a new theoretical overview of early game studies on narrative

Physical Description

1 electronic resource (144 p.)

ISBN

books978-3-03921-232-3
9783039212323
9783039212316

Access

Open Access