ebook ebooks e-book e-books downloaden bei MyEbooks.ch downloaden

Storyplaying Agency and Narrative in Video Games

:	Sebastian Domsch
:	Storyplaying Agency and Narrative in Video Games
:	Walter de Gruyter GmbH& Co.KG
:	9783110272451
:	1
:	CHF 102.10
:

:	Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
:	English

:	196
:	Wasserzeichen/DRM
:	PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet
:	PDF

!doctype html public '-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en'>< PAN lang=EN-GB>

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 very narrative they are experiencing: they are players. The narratives thus created are realizations of the multiple possibilities contained in the present of any given gameplay situation. Surveying the latest trends in the field, the volume discusses the complex relationship of narrative and gameplay.

Sebastian Domsch, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit& 228;t, München, Germany.

	1 Introduction: What is Storyplaying?	7
	1.1 Preliminaries: Medial Forms	12
	1.2 Preliminaries: Exclusions	16
	2 Video Games and Narrative	19
	2.1 Gameplay and Narrative	19
	2.1.1 Gameplay and Game Mechanics: The Rules of the Game	20
	2.1.2 Semanticization and Fictionalization: Towards Gameworlds	24
	2.2 Narrative Forms	37
	2.2.1 Passive Forms	37
	2.2.1.1 Exposition	38
	2.2.1.2 Cut scenes	38
	2.2.1.3 Loading Screen	40
	2.2.2 Actively Nodal Forms	40
	2.2.2.1 Player Actions	41
	2.2.2.2 Quick Time Event	41
	2.2.2.3 Dialogue tree	44
	2.2.2.4 Event trigger	47
	2.2.3 Dynamic Forms	49
	2.2.3.1 Non-player Character	49
	2.2.3.2 Timed Events/Intradiegetic Clock	52
	2.2.4 Digression: Architecture and Protocols	54
	3 Non-Unilinear Gameplay in Video Games	59
	3.1 Levels of Observation	59
	3.2 Non-Unilinear Existents	67
	3.3 Non-Unilinear Objectives	74
	4 Non-Unilinear Narrative in Video Games	81
	4.1 Non-Unilinearity in Quest-Based Narrative	87
	4.2 Non-Unilinear Narrative Outside of Quests	99
	4.2.1 Character	100
	4.2.2 Spatial Narrative	104
	5 Choice and Narrative in Video Games	118
	5.1 The Anatomy of a Player Choice	118
	5.2 Choice and Meaning	129
	5.3 Choice, Information, and Narration in Video Games	134
	5.4 Choice and Consequence in Video Games	143
	6 Narrative’s Contrast Agent: Moral Choices	154
	6.1 Valorisation Rules	156
	6.2 Valorising Morality	161
	6.3 Ethics and Rules	169
	7 The Future of Storyplaying	175
	7.1 Media-Economic Aspects	176
	7.2 Media-Technological Aspects	177
	7.3 Artistic Potential of the Medium	183
	Works Cited	187
	Index	194