Storyplaying: Agency and Narrative in Video Games

• Main Author: Domsch, Sebastian (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: De Gruyter 2013
• Subjects: Literary studies: general; Narration; Narrative; Video Games; Computer Games
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Incontestably, Future Narratives are most conspicuous in video games: they combine narrative with the major element of all games: agency. The persons who perceive these narratives are not simply readers or spectators but active agents with a range of choices at their disposal that will influence the...