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Game Design as Narrative Architecture

@inproceedings{Jenkins2003GameDA,
  title={Game Design as Narrative Architecture},
  author={Henry Jenkins},
  year={2003}
}
The relationship between games and story remains a divisive question among game fans, designers, and scholars alike. At a recent academic Games Studies conference, for example, a blood feud threatened to erupt between the self-proclaimed Ludologists, who wanted to see the focus shift onto the mechanics of game play, and the Narratologists, who were interested in studying games alongside other storytelling media.(1) Consider some recent statements made on this issue: 
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  • K. Schut
  • Sociology, Computer Science
  • DiGRA Conference
  • 2003
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Abstract of Dynamic Range: When Game Design and Narratives Unite
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Designing stories: practices of narrative in 3D computer games
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Stepping into the Subjunctive World of the Fiction in Game, Film and Novel.
The concept of the subjunctive mode provides a useful key in exploring narrative comprehension in different media. This article reports on a study in which twelve undergraduates, working in groups of… Expand
Game Spaces Speak Volumes: Indexical Storytelling
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This paper examines the different devices that videogames have used to incorporate stories through spatial design and what is known as environmental storytelling, focusing on the design elements that make the story directly relevant to gameplay beyond world-building and backstory exposition. Expand
Games Worth a Thousand Words: Critical Approaches and Ludonarrative Harmony in Interactive Narratives
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