Dijital Oyunlarda Oynanış ve Anlatı İlişkisi: DayZ Oyunu ve Village Topluluğu

Abstract

The Relation of Gameplay and Narrative in Video Games: DayZ Video Game and Village Community The relation between game narrative and game form is a subject that has provoked protracted discussion in game studies. As an approach and a set of methods proposed by this approach, ludology makes a distinction between games and other media and focuses on game form. Theoretical discussions in game studies need to be supported by the analyzes of the examples taken from the games themselves. This study examines how the narrative of DayZ is constructed by conducting a game-formal analysis. To this aim, the study focuses on the concept of gameplay, which is connected to the development process, gameworld, story, technical base, and game mechanics of the game. Another element that completes the gameplay is the set of player actions in the game. The ethnographic methods of digital play have been used to discuss how players create their own stories. The Village community was taken as an example to work on the player's culture and productions. While contemporary research frequently chooses to handle the theme of violence in digital games, this paper underlines different dimensions of meanings emerging from gameplay by elaborating on the productions of DayZ communities, which shows solidarity, cooperation , and friendship.