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Detective Stories in Digital Games

Literary detective stories have some game-like elements, as they pose an implicit challenge for the reader to solve the crime before they read the solution (Suits, 1985). This paper will examine early detective games to argue that interactive detective investigations are essentially linked to textual exploration and exegesis; as text becomes de-emphasized, the detective work also takes a secondary role.

According to Todorov’s typology of detective fiction (Todorov, 2000), detective games present two stories: the story of the crime and the story of the investigation. The first type of detective fiction, the whodunit, emphasizes the story of the crime, which the detective reconstructs, on the other hand, the thriller emphasizes the story of the investigation, by which the detective gets embroiled into the crime that he is solving.

Jill Walker Rettberg - 20.06.2014 - 18:00

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