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1. Expressive Processing: Digital Fictions, Computer Games, and Software Studies

   What matters in understanding digital media? Is looking at the external appearance and audience experience of software enough—or should we look further? In Expressive Processing, Noah Wardrip-Fruin argues that understanding what goes on beneath the surface, the computational processes that make digital media function, is essential.

   Wardrip-Fruin suggests that it is the authors and artists with knowledge of these processes who will use the expressive potential of computation to define the future of fiction and games. He also explores how computational processes themselves express meanings through distinctive designs, histories, and intellectual kinships that may not be visible to audiences.

   Scott Rettberg - 20.05.2011 - 11:26

2. Videogame: jogos, narrativa e interação no espaço virtual

   Videogame: jogos, narrativa e interação no espaço virtual

   Luciana Gattass - 17.10.2012 - 17:48

3. Sonho quântico: um modelo de roteiro e narrativa e de liguagem em hipermídia

   Sonho quântico: um modelo de roteiro e narrativa e de liguagem em hipermídia

   Luciana Gattass - 18.10.2012 - 12:33

4. Travels in Cybertextuality. The Challenge of Ergodic Literature and Ludology to Literary Theory

   The dissertation’s main point of departure is the clash between explicit and implicit presuppositions, conceptualisations and generalisations in print-oriented literary theoretical paradigms and a plenitude of empirically verifiable anomalies and counter-examples to them found in digital and ergodic works of literature. The behaviour of these counter-examples is explained by cybertext theory that addresses the often neglected issue of the variety of literary media. Both the empirical counter-examples and the empirically verifiable differences in the behaviour of literary media allow us to expand and modify literary theories to suit not just one traditionally privileged media position but all of them. Therefore, in the first half of the dissertation, literary theory and narratology are viewed and modified from the perspective of slightly revised cybertext theory. In this process theories of ergodic and non-ergodic literature are integrated more closely and several so far non-theorized ways of manipulating narrative time, regulating narrative information, and generating narrative instances are located and theorized.

   Scott Rettberg - 13.12.2012 - 21:45

5. 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