Interactivity: Storytelling or Storywriting? A closer look on videogames and narrative
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چکیده
This paper deals with the question of relations between videogames and narrative. By reading many of the existing studies on this topic, opposite conclusions can be drawn about the link between interactivity and narrative. To help us clarify these opposite conclusions, we will first use a distinction between story and storytelling. We will then analyse a corpus of narrative videogames to identify several forms of story and storytelling, some being interactive and some not. This analysis will help us propose several categories of combination between storytelling, storytelling, and interactivity.
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