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Storyplaying : Agency and Narrative in Video Games by Sebastian Domsch (2013, Hardcover)

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Title: Storyplaying. Author: Sebastian Domsch. Format: Hardback. Release Year: 2013. Type: History & Criticism. Topic: Computing & Internet. Item Weight: 413g. Language: English.

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PublisherDE Gruyter, Inc.

ISBN-103110272164

ISBN-139783110272161

eBay Product ID (ePID)123432384

Product Key Features

Number of Pages196 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameStoryplaying : Agency and Narrative in Video Games

Publication Year2013

SubjectGeneral, Video & Electronic

TypeTextbook

AuthorSebastian Domsch

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Games & Activities

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Weight14.6 Oz

Item Length9.1 in

Item Width6.1 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Grade FromCollege Graduate Student

IllustratedYes

Volume NumberVolume 4

Grade ToCollege Graduate Student

SynopsisIncontestably, 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., This series explores a hitherto unidentified type of narrative: Future Narratives. Narratives are traditionally concerned with past events or with events that are happening right now, and narratives process them into a meaningful sequence. In contrast, Future Narratives preserve a characteristic feature of future time, namely that it is yet undecided, open, and multiple, and that it has not yet crystallized into actuality. They do this by operating with 'nodes' as their basic unit - situations that allow for more than one continuation. Future Narratives can be found in print, in film, in video games, in scenarios of world climate change, and in other simulations of future trends. Cutting across all media and genre classifications, this burgeoning corpus still lacks a theory and a poetics. This series offers both - as well as detailed case studies. Firmly rooted in narratology, the project has interesting interfaces with philosophy, the theory of history, media studies, game theory, decision theory, and futurology., This series explores a hitherto unidentified type of narrative: Future Narratives. Future Narratives preserve essential aspects of future time, namely its openness and undecidedness. They do this by operating with 'nodes' as their basic unit - situations that allow for more than one continuation. Future Narratives can be found in print, in film, in video games, in scenarios of world climate change, and in other simulations of future trends. Cutting across all media and genre classifications, this burgeoning corpus still lacks a theory and a poetics. This series offers both - and detailed case studies.