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Examining the Role of Micronarrative in Commercial Videogames, Art Games and Interactive Narrative
Integrating story with games in a flexible way that gives interactors meaningful choices within a narrative experience has long been a goal of both game developers and digital storytellers. The "micronarrative" is an unexplored avenue of narrative structure that can be a useful tool in analysis and design of such experiences. A micronarrative is a smaller moment of plot coherence and miniature arc that is nested within a larger narrative structure. The concept was first labeled by Jenkins in 2004 in the context of a game's "meaningful moments" and expanded upon in Bizzocchi's 2007 analytical framework for videogame storytelling. It has its roots in earlier examinations of arc and scale, such as Propp's concept of "Functions" or McKee's "Beats" in literature, as well as in Barthes’ classification of a “hierarchy of levels or strata” which incorporates “micro-sequences” as described in his structural analysis of narrative (1975).
Daniela Ørvik - 17.02.2015 - 15:57
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Collaborative World Building in Networked Classrooms: Experiments in Electronic Writing and Digital Dissertations
This paper discusses my theory of incremental storytelling, a methodology for teaching fiction writing that combines gaming, collaborative writing, and digital storytelling. Most creative writing courses employ some variation of the traditional workshop format where students write and critique each other’s fiction, often using published work by established writers as models for emulation. While this approach has its merits, it typically presents traditional print culture as superior to other narrative forms and reinforces romantic notions of the lone artist toiling in isolation on a muse-inspired work of genius. Incremental storytelling works in opposition to these assumptions, recasting the creative writing classroom as an inherently collaborative space where modest contributions from each participant results in an exponentially richer fictional environment. (Source Author Abstract)
Sumeya Hassan - 19.02.2015 - 15:42
