Game Stories

Stories in Games 

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Reading 1 by John Sutherland

Reading 2 Case Study

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A good story in-game is a key factor to raise the quality of your game. Looking back what story has turned out to be successful in former story games is a good starting point for your story in the game. It is important for the developer to know the basics of storytelling when approaching this topic. Over the years the digital games have matured massively and raised the level of potential high.

 There are many important features that the developer of the game must consider and focus on in their story. There must be a protagonist which is often the main character that the players engage with the most and love. To give a reason for the story an element of an inciting incident must be added which will apply the main character to have a function or a role that must be completed towards the end of the story game. This can also be the object of desire that the protagonist has but it must be challenging to achieve.

Video games have grown in popularity and meaning with the use of storytelling in them. They are constantly progressing and are being more interactive where a player has the ability of choice which gives a feeling that you have control over the game. Despite some games allowing you to have a choice in actions or a choice of what to say the plot of the actual story stays the same throughout the whole gameplay. This means that despite all the options and choices we get in the game don't give us control of the story in the game at all. 

In many games, we follow the structure of the story rather than creating our own story but the clever development and storytelling make the player believe this point when playing the first time. It is important to develop a story that will allow the player to interact and feel in control without destroying the structure of the story and how the game's story should affect us.























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