Interactive Storytelling in Three Recent Video Games, by Serena Middleton Culture [email protected] Mon, 06/03/2024 - 14:25 As technology develops. it causes changes in the mediums that house our literature, but our human ability to tell stories stays the same. In addition to novels, video games are a powerful digital medium for narrative exploration. Whether the story is being told through the written word, visually, or even orally, stories have the power to captivate the audience and allow us to get lost in the narrative being told. However, video games have the unique ability to make the stories we tell interactive. They enable players to engage with narratives and shape the outcomes through their choices. There is no shortage of games in the last five years that have done this. The three games listed below are some outstanding stories that have been published in the last couple of years in which players are able to get lost in discovering all the different ways they can change the outcome of the story. Road 96 ESRB: T (Teen) French developer and publisher DigixArt Released in 2021, in this roughly seven-hour-long indie game, you play as several teens making their journey out of the country of Petria. Throughout their trip to the border, the teens can encounter several characters: Franny, John, Jarod, Alex, Zoe, Soyna, or Stan and Mitch. They all have their own stories that interact with one another in some ways. Still,... Continue reading at 'World Literature Today'
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How women are portrayed in photography has been a hot-button issue in publishing during the last several months. One could argue the spirited dialogue goes back a year to Dove's "Real Beauty Sketches" effort, which went viral. At any rate, whether you find BuzzFeed Video's "Photoshopping Real... Continue reading at AdWeek
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Pocket Gems, the San Francisco-based mobile gaming company, has launched Episode, a new mobile gaming platform, that includes a writer’s portal that will enable anyone to utilize the platform to create their own animated story. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Since Valve released the first stable version of Steam for Linux a year ago, the number of Linux-supported games has grown more than fivefold.Valve's digital game distribution service now hosts 333 games for Linux, compared to 60 games last February. (Strangely, Steam's store page claims that... Continue reading at PC World
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When it comes to online publishing, building an audience organically with compelling content and monetizing it successfully with ads from big-name brands is extremely hard work. Luckily, there's a much easier way to make money: Arbitrage.The post Tricks of the trade: How to game the publishing... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2014-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Marie Claire is a highly polished magazine; its recent foray into digital video was not.The Hearst-owned title live-streamed its first dating show "The Love Match" on Friday, where three women "looking to find love" were paired with one of three eligible bachelors. Marie Claire staffers... Continue reading at Advertising Age
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Mathew Modine says books will never fully replace computer apps, as he releases a book app about the making of a famous film. Continue reading at BBC World
[ BBC World | 2014-02-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Tales Of The City, the hugely successful book series written by Armistead Maupin, comes to an end Continue reading at BBC World
[ BBC World | 2014-02-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Harry Potter fans were incensed when J.K. Rowling said – in excerpts released from an interview – that she'd had misgivings about Hermione and Ron as a couple. The full text of the interview offers more clarity, along with Rowling's feeling about a controversial scene from the movie series. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
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'The Snow Queen' inspired not only Disney's hit musical 'Frozen' but also author Karen Foxlee, who based her critically acclaimed novel 'Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy' on the wintry tale. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
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Gaming @ LBF is designed to connect the "creative and commercial talents of gaming developers, publishers and distributors with their publishing counterparts." Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Justin Smith, CEO of Bloomberg Media Group, is slated to wrap up a 100-day review of the company in the coming weeks, when he is expected to offer recommendations on the future of the global media conglomerate's TV division and digital and print operations, including Bloomberg Businessweek.His... Continue reading at Advertising Age
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Microsoft caught everyone's attention back when it introduced ID@Xbox. Now, nearly six months after the indie developer program was revealed, we're finally seeing the first titles to come out of it: Worms Battlegrounds and Nutjitsu. At this point,... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2014-02-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Quality video ad inventory is still scarce. That's why companies such as Conde Nast, Meredith, AOL, and Entrepreneur.com are eager to generate as many video views as they possible can, and why they buy traffic from platforms like Swagbucks to help.The post When Publishers Pay for Video Ad Views... Continue reading at Digiday
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The Interactive Advertising Bureau primarily exists to help grow the pie of digital advertising dollars. So, as it kicks off its annual leadership meeting this week, it's focusing on where that growth is expected to occur: mobile.Today, the IAB -- along with a group of publishers including AOL,... Continue reading at Advertising Age
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Interested in the business of high-quality web video? There’s a lot of good stuff from Washington Post video GM Steven Schiffman in this Beet.TV interview about the Post’s broad-strokes strategy for the business side of video. ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
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The International Kolkata Book Fair has been welcoming hundreds of thousands of people to the Indian city of Calcutta. Continue reading at BBC World
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In an interview conducted by 'Potter' actress Emma Watson, Rowling said she's wondered whether she should have paired two of the characters, Ron and Hermione, romantically. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
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Collaborative publishing website Medium, which aims to reinvent the blog, secures first external investmentMedium, Twitter co-founder Ev Williams's online publishing venture, has no shortage of ambition – to reinvent the blog as a digital storytelling format and match the impact of the... Continue reading at The Guardian
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Follow Your Fantasy promises fresh spin on the genre pioneered in rather less risqué stories in the 1980sA threesome, sex with a stranger or work on a porn film: the choice will be yours, as HarperCollins prepares to launch an erotic version of the Choose Your Own Adventure books which were... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2014-01-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Nathan Filer, winner of the Costa Book of the Year with his debut novel The Shock of the Fall, says he was "shocked and delighted" as the announcement was made. Continue reading at BBC News
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