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Games & Play Week of October 29

Journal! Oops. Prompts up!

NARRATIVE & PERFORMANCE VIOLENCE & SPEECH GENDER & GAMER TOXICITY RACE & NATIONALITY SPORTS & ESPORTS

NARRATIVE & PERFORMANCE VIOLENCE & SPEECH GENDER & GAMER TOXICITY RACE & NATIONALITY SPORTS & ESPORTS

Playing games, experiencing games, experiencing story.

Where does the “story” in the L4D example come from?

Narrative emerges . But, what other ways does it work?

Jenkins’ “narrative architecture.” A summary of narratology/ludology. Why “space”?

How can space be used to understand narrative ? Identify and label Jenkins’ four models for how narrative maps onto game spaces Bring in an example ( not one that Jenkins uses) of a game that you think uses this model.

Report back. What does this tell us about how narrative “works” in games? In contemporary games? (Jenkins’ piece is over a decade old).

Evoked Enacted Embedded Emergent

Identity and Performance. When we play games, we are not just experiencing story, we are often enacting it, performing it.

Gary Alan Fine — Sociologist, Ethnographer

“[H]ow is expressive culture shaped by the social system in which we all live and how does this social system a ff ect the culture that we create and that we participate in.” [Shamelessly swiped from a quote on his Wikipedia page]

What’s a “frame” and how are these used to understand games?

Games can be seen as intersections of narrative and performance ; within systems of rules .

NARRATIVE & PERFORMANCE VIOLENCE & SPEECH GENDER & GAMER TOXICITY RACE & NATIONALITY SPORTS & ESPORTS

NARRATIVE & PERFORMANCE VIOLENCE & SPEECH GENDER & GAMER TOXICITY RACE & NATIONALITY SPORTS & ESPORTS