The Meaning Potential of Procedurality: initial considerations on procedural semiotic resources

This text presents initial considerations about the meaning potential of procedurality in digital media, from the perspective of the designer working in this medium. In simple terms, the procedural aspect of digital media refers to this medium’s fundamental ability to execute a series of rules in an autonomous fashion. Procedural authorship allows for unique strategies of representation and expression, different than in any other traditional medium or language. The objective of this particular study is to identify and analyze the usage of procedural semiotic resources by the designers of digital games created using MissionMaker, as well as the availability of such resources in that software, as a means to discuss the meaning potential of procedurality in a more general sense. The framework used is the Multimodal Analysis approach, as well as a methodology of my own, developed in a previous research.