ENVIRONMENTAL STORYTELLING: ABOUT NARRATIVE DEVICES IN COMPUTER GAMES | Humanitarian Informatics. 2017. № 12. DOI: 10.17223/23046082/12/8

ENVIRONMENTAL STORYTELLING: ABOUT NARRATIVE DEVICES IN COMPUTER GAMES

This study looks at the technique of «environmental storytelling» in narratives of computer games. The study examines the essense of this technique, outlines the scope of its applying, and gives examples of its implementation in actual computer games. Substantiates relevance and efficiency of this narrative device. Describes the concept of computer games as narrative environments. Explains functional purpose of virtual environments in computer games.

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исследования игр, нарратология компьютерной игры, повествование через окружение, нарративные пространства, виртуальные пространства, нарратив, геймдизайн, левелдизайн, game studies, narratology of computer games, environmental storytelling, narrative environments, virtual environments, narrative, game design, level design

Authors

Name	Organization	E-mail
Smolnikov Anton D.	National Research Tomsk State University	d.anton.smolnikov@gmail.com

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