Tag: Janet Murray

Game within a Game.

Post author By Justin Keverne
Post date December 3, 2012
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The following article was original written and published as part of the Video Games and Human Values Initiative in 2009. Due to changes in the the design of the VGHVI site the original form of this article is no longer available, so I sought and obtained permission to republish it here. A .PDF version is also available. Game within […]

Tags Andrew Vanden Bossche, Assassin's Creed, Barbara Creed, Bernard Suits, Carl Jung, Chris Crawford, Janet Murray

Game Design Narrative Design

Let me tell you a story.

Post author By Justin Keverne
Post date March 1, 2008
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Any discussion of storytelling in games is going to run up against a barrier at some point due simply to the nature of games as (in very loose terms) “interactive systems governed by rules” seems to run counter to what defines a story. I personally prefer the term narrative as it doesn’t have the same connotations […]

Tags BioShock, Clint Hocking, Half-Life 2, Hamlet On The Holodeck, Janet Murray, Ken Levine