Posts Tagged ‘Narrative’
The Story So Far
April 25th, 2009 | 
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It’s that time of the week again. My weekly musings over in the hallowed halls of PALGN has just been posted.
This week I take a look at video game narrative. Dr Souvik Mukherjee, a researcher and computer game narrative expert from the School of Arts & Humanities at Nottingham Trent University, believes that ‘the complex mesh of possible storylines and deep levels of involvement in video game narratives relate to, and often surpass, the experience of earlier narrative media, such as books and films.’
He’d get no argument from Lionhead boss Peter Molyneux’s who back in March famously predicted “Godfather” levels of storytelling in games by 2016, then upped the ante even further last month at GDC, stating that he believed video games would actually surpass those levels of story telling.
What do I think? You’ll have to read The Wrap #27 to find out. And remember, you’ll find links to earlier columns at the end of this week’s ‘Wrap’.
Enjoy.
The Incomplete Gamer
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