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The Tribulations of Adventure Games: Integrating Story into Simulation Through Performance
This dissertation aims at positioning adventure games in game studies, by describing their formal aspects and how they have integrated game design with stories. The adventure game genre includes text adventures (also known as interactive fiction), graphical text adventures, and graphic adventures, also referred to as point-and-click adventure games. Adventure games have been the first videogames to evidence the difficulty of reconciling games and stories, an already controversial topic in game studies. An adventure game is a simulation, the intersection between the rule system of the game and its fictional world. The simulation becomes a performance space for the player. The simulation establishes how the player can interact with the world of the game. The simulated world integrates a series of concatenated puzzles, which structure the performance of the player. Solving the puzzles thus means advancing in the story of the game. The integration of the story with the simulation is done through the performance of the player.
Jill Walker Rettberg - 25.04.2014 - 05:16
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Video Games and the Future of Learning
The paper describes "an approach" to the design of learning environments that builds on the educational properties of games, but deeply grounds them within a theory of learning appropriate for an age marked by the power of new technologies.
(Source: http://www.worldcat.org/title/video-games-and-the-future-of-learning/ocl...)
Susanne Dahl - 19.09.2016 - 14:56
