Storyplaying: Agency and Narrative in Video Games

by Sebastian Domsch

Incontestably, 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110272164
• ISBN13: 9783110272161
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary