Narrative mechanics: strategies and meanings in games and real life
In: Edition Medienwissenschaft volume 82
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Playing with Narratives -- Narrative Mechanics -- Narrative Patterns in Video Games -- Teaching Narrative Design -- The Narrative Role of Sound in Games -- Expanding the Narrative -- Mukokuseki and the Narrative Mechanics in Japanese Games -- Characterization and Emergent Narrative in Dwarf Fortress -- On the Evolution of Narrative Mechanics in Open-World Games -- Open-End Storytelling in Pinball Machines -- Mechanics of Inspiration -- Narrative Approaches in Contemporary Video Game Reviews -- Games, Politics and Society -- "We're not murderers. We just survive." -- QUIZ -- Ludic Meanders through Defictionalization: The Narrative Mechanics of Art -- If You Play It, Do You Believe It? -- Ball Games and Language Games -- Case Studies -- Florence -- The Last Guardian -- Murder at the Museum -- Even Missile Command Tells a Story -- Shave -- The Twitter Game -- Commander Kurz -- Authors