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
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