… We now all seem to agree on a few salient positions: first, that games do not necessarily …
the hold that both narrative and games have on our individual and collective imaginations. …

… This predominance of narrative in the humanities is no longer uncontested. In … narrative-as-we-knew-it
(see Landow, 1994). Nowadays scholars of games studies argue that narrative …

… of computer games retailers. By contrast, the games that we focus on in this book are high-profile
games … Such games, especially those developed with consoles in mind, continue to be …

… Perhaps we instead need a parallel paradigm, a “ludology” (Frasca 1999) to understand
games the way narratology is used to understand narrative? … So how can we know that …

… arguments for games being narrative. There are at least three common arguments:(1) We
use narratives for … of the twentieth century can in some way reconcile games and narratives. …

… see games as stories, and ludologists, who see games as … games and narratives are not
fundamentally in conflict and can complement each other. When we view games and narratives …

… is digital game narratives used in games for … narrative, story, serious games, and interactive
learning environments, and a combination of them. Other search terms such as narrative-…

… a narrative review exploring the trends and future directions of game design for HMD-VR health
games. … To this end, we conducted a narrative review characterizing the current state and …

… story and narrative within games are related to specific player preferences. The result is a
framework in which perceived tensions between game play and narrative are accounted for as …

… of narrative types used in games. As the narrative paradox indicates, the narrative designer’s
… Let us look and compare how some games present a complex narrative design to a player …