Narrative Mechanics : Strategies and Meanings in Games and Real Life / Beat Suter, René Bauer, Mela Kocher
What do stories in games have in common with political narratives? This book identifies narrative strategies as mechanisms for meaning and manipulation in games and real life. It shows that the narrative mechanics so clearly identifiable in games are increasingly used (and abused) in politics and s...
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| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Edition Medienwissenschaft
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (362 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- Playing with Narratives
- Narrative Mechanics
- Narrative Patterns in Video Games
- Teaching Narrative Design
- The Narrative Role of Sound in Games
- Expanding the Narrative
- Mukokuseki and the Narrative Mechanics in Japanese Games
- Characterization and Emergent Narrative in Dwarf Fortress
- On the Evolution of Narrative Mechanics in Open-World Games
- Open-End Storytelling in Pinball Machines
- Mechanics of Inspiration
- Narrative Approaches in Contemporary Video Game Reviews
- Games, Politics and Society
- "We're not murderers. We just survive."
- QUIZ
- Ludic Meanders through Defictionalization: The Narrative Mechanics of Art
- If You Play It, Do You Believe It?
- Ball Games and Language Games
- Case Studies
- Florence
- The Last Guardian
- Murder at the Museum
- Even Missile Command Tells a Story
- Shave
- The Twitter Game
- Commander Kurz
- Authors