Games, Storytelling, and Breaking the String
Critical Writing
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2007
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978-0-262-08356-0
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5-14
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MIT
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Abstract (in English):
Greg Costikyan revisits the narrative versus game-play debate that continues to be a staple of both Game Studies and Game Design. He presents a spectrum that ranges from game-focused forms to narrative-centric models, and suggests that free-form role-playing may be the most desireable marriage of narrative and game-play.
The source is the essay-review on www.electronicbookreview.com written by Greg Costikyan.
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Before 1973, if you had said something like "games are a storytelling medium," just about anyone would have looked at you as if you were mad - and anyone knowledgeable about games would have assumed you knew nothing about them.
The quote was directly rewritten from the essay.
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