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The Future of Storytelling

Chapter 5 Storytelling in Digital Games


(launched on 22.11.2013)
Units 2 through 5 (Dr. Mark Butler)
References / recommended literature and game video links
I. Literature
Unit 2 Gameplay & Storytelling
Aarseth, Espen (2004): Genre Trouble: Narrativism and the Art of
Simulation, in: P. Harrington and N. Wardrip-Fruin (ed.): First Person:
New Media as Story, Performance, and Game, Cambridge MA: MIT Press,
pp. 4547.
Frasca, Gonzala (1999): Ludology Meets Narratology: Similitude and
differences between (video)games and narrative,
http://www.ludology.org/articles/ludology.htm
Frasca, Gonzala (2003): Ludologists love stories, too: Notes on a debate
that never took place,
http://www.ludology.org/articles/frasca_levelup2003.pdf
Juul, Jesper (2001): Games telling stories? A brief note on games and
narratives, in: Game Studies 1(1),
http://www.gamestudies.org/0101/juul-gts/
Murray, Janet H. (1997): Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of
Narrative in Cyberspace, New York: Simon & Schuster/Free Press.
Ryan, Marie-Laure (2001): Narrative as Virtual Reality: Immersion and
Interactivity in Literature and Electronic Media, Baltimore: John Hopkins
University Press.
Simons, Jan (2007): Narrative, Games and Theory. What Ball to Play?,
in: Game Studies 7(1), http://gamestudies.org/0701/articles/simons
Unit 3 Scenes & Actions
Butler, Mark (2010): On Reality and Simulation in an Extra-Moral Sense.
The Playful Logic of Life and Death in Liberty City, in: Stephan
Gnzel/Michael Liebe/Dieter Mersch (ed.): Logic and Structure of the
Computer Game, Potsdam: Potsdam University Press, pp. 212236.
Galloway, Alexander (2006): Gaming. Essays on Algorithmic Culture,
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Ryan, Marie-Laure (2001): Beyond Myth and Metaphor: The Case of
Narrative in Digital Media, in: Game Studies 1(1),
http://www.gamestudies.org/0101/ryan/
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Unit 4 Adventure Game Architecture
Pias, Claus (2004): Action, Adventure, Desire. Interaction with PC
Games, in: Heide Hageblling (ed.): Interactive Dramaturgies. New
Approaches in Multimedia Content and Design, Berlin/New York:
Springer, pp. 127141.
Barthes, Roland (1975): An Introduction to the Structural Analysis of
Narrative, in: New Literary History 6(2), pp. 237272,
http://www.jstor.org/stable/468419
II. Game video links (in the order mentioned):
Spacewar!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rmvb4Hktv7U
Advent/Colossal Cave
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4G5KazHDcw
Donkey Kong
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrhNsgboKOA
Zork
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNN4VPlRBJ8
Pac-Man (gameplay with cutscene)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiJ0PkU8t3c
Starcraft II (cutscene)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pozk1X10to
Max Payne (cutscene)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKsH87AEF2Q
Dragons Lair
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6em4GRiRY0
Fahrenheit (gameplay with quick-time event)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeunxWm7CN4
Heavy Rain (gameplay with quick-time event - Madison Paige in her
apartment)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX8QLfV3HyQ
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Beyond: Two Souls (chapter: Hunted with quick-time event)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsAGLLRYqiU
Half-Life (gameplay with scripted scene)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koTWq9g1P6E
GTA V (gameplay with scripted scene and insight into the setting of the
gameworld)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2eQ7nfh_bk
Bioshock
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wYTklMok8E
Ico
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNSoKQiV6LY
Shadow of the Colossus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBm7XGI2OPA
Beyond: Two Souls (chapter: Imaginary Friend)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiHK6XZDo10
Beyond: Two Souls (chapter: Alone)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB5kfmGIeUk
Monkey Island
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2FKe0x4Lfc
Remember Me (trailer)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4ofUXGkCh0
Heavy Rain (gameplay full of indications)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhJzG56-hVc
L.A. Noire (gameplay with interrogation scene)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82Sy_QqEshY
Eve Online (commentary on a player driven event)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2abdVXbxN0
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