All tagged narrative

Immersion and Narrative: Games as Worlds

Part Two of a short series on Immersion and Narrative in video games. By going back to fundamentals and creating worlds that players want to hang out in, do games like Undertale and Omori do a better job of creating immersion and stronger narrative connections for the player?

Immersion and Narrative: Games as Film

Part One of a short series on Immersion and Narrative in video games. In their quest for cultural legitimacy, video games have adopted cinematic qualities in their design. By taking from the medium of film, are games better for it? Or is video game as film an exercise in futility?