Milena Srandeva explores the rise in choice-driven game play and why consumers love being able to decide the story’s fate.
Choice-Driven Gameplay and the Demand in Multi-Layered Storytelling
How the Pandemic Has Shifted My View on Video Games
Since the pandemic, people have undeniably turned to playing video games as a way of keeping themselves entertained with their newfound free time. And perhaps they aren’t so bad as we might think?
Dexit Means Dexit: The Controversy with Pokemon Sword and Shield
Since before the launch of Pokemon Sword and Shield, there has been a lot of controversy over the decision to cut certain Pokemon from the game. This marked a first for the series, as in previous games all Pokemon were included.
Gamebooks, Video Games and Branching Narratives
Every story in any medium has 3 things in common: a beginning, a middle, and an end. The order of it is of course subject to change, as anyone who’s read Catch-22 or watched Arrival (2016) would tell you. Now, let’s dispel the notion that you can only have one of each within the framework of a narrative.
Are ARGs Art? YouTube’s New Media Storytelling
It’s 4am in America, a Tuesday in March 2016. In a haze, you notice something start to go wrong with the TV. It seems as though it’s picking up CCTV footage of a suburban family, preparing for a kid’s party while a teen lies silently on the floor – apparently sulking.
Minecraft and the Story Map
by Rachel Day Video games may not be the first thing that come to mind as a way of encouraging children to read, but they’re exactly what computer scientists at Lancaster University […]
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