When the Fourth Layer Meets the Fourth Wall: The Case for Critical Game Retellings

Sych, Steven

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“…Additionally, users and third-party service providers create their own paratexts as a labour of love or for profit: two game-specific forms of paratexts are 1) walkthroughs and guides, ranging from detailed step-by-step descriptions of how to complete a game (for more story-driven and linear games) to strategic tips and tricks (for more open-ended, abstract or simulation-based games) that help mitigate the challenge factor of the game, and 2) game retellings (see Eladhari (2018) and Sych (2020)), which narrow the many potential stories of games into one experience. They can take the form of recorded play sessions, ranging from text-based after-action reports of strategy games to 'Let's Play!…”

Section: Box 52 the Paratexts Of Computer Gamesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Intermedial Studies

Bruhn¹,

Schirrmacher²

2021

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Intermedial Studies provides a concise, hands-on introduction to the analysis of a broad array of texts from a variety of mediaincluding literature, film, music, performance, news and videogames, addressing fiction and non-fiction, mass media and social media.The detailed introduction offers a short history of the field and outlines the main theoretical approaches. Part I explains the approach, examining and exemplifying the dimensions that construct every media product. The following sections offer practical examples and case studies using many examples that will be familiar to students, from Sherlock Holmes and football, to news, vlogs and videogames.This book is the only textbook that takes both a theoretical and practical approach to intermedial studies. The book will be of use to students from a variety of disciplines looking at any form of adaptation, from comparative literature to film adaptations, fan fictions and spoken performances. The book equips students with the language and understanding to confidently and competently apply their own intermedial analysis to any text.

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Section: Box 52 the Paratexts Of Computer Gamesmentioning

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Intermedial Studies

Bruhn¹,

Schirrmacher²

2021

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“…maximizing the needs, desires or goals of the individual) or by implementing complex global systems to simulate weather, economy, politics, etc. Often, in spite of the internal system complexity, emergent narratives are dull or produce interesting results only insomuch as they highlight the limitations of the system (Sych 2020). This sense of EN's being both highly complex and costly to design, but also somewhat mysterious in their ability to create narratives, often makes them inaccessible or unreliable, and often artificial systems such as drama management are used to more reliably produce dramatic behaviour (Roberts and Isbell 2008).…”

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A Force Dynamic Model of Narrative Agents

Kybartas

Verbrugge²,

Lessard

2021

AIIDE

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Emergent narratives are dependent on the behaviour modelling of agents in the storyworld. Typical approaches to behaviour modelling, however, overly encourage individual goals and needs, ignoring the dynamic interpersonal relations needed to create rising and falling conflicts. In this paper, we present a force dynamic agent model, in which relations and goals are modelled as forces, with the state of an agent treated as a physical object within an abstract space representing narrative tension. Building off previous work, we implement a test-bed and scenario in the Unity Game Engine. We show, through experimentation, that the dynamic force-based model causes the emergence of conflict curves mirroring traditional narrative perspectives. We conclude that an abstract physical modelling of narrative agents is able to embed several desirable properties for emergent narratives, namely, continuous conflict, dynamic interpersonal relations and temporal and strength modelling of the impact of individual actions.

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Longform Video Essays as Critical Retellings of Video Game Narratives

Sezen

2021

International Series on Computer Entertainment and Media Technology

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When the Fourth Layer Meets the Fourth Wall: The Case for Critical Game Retellings

Cited by 7 publications

References 4 publications

Intermedial Studies

Intermedial Studies

A Force Dynamic Model of Narrative Agents

Longform Video Essays as Critical Retellings of Video Game Narratives

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