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1	DESIGN GUIDELINES FOR MAKING NARRATIVELY SYMBOLIC GAME MECHANICS : Literary Analysis of How the Yu-Gi-Oh Trading Card Game Visualises the Arthurian Legend With Game Mechanics Millqvist, Lydia January 2022 (has links) The relationship between narrative and game mechanics has been researched under terms such as ludonarrative dissonance, ludonarrative resonance and narrative mechanics. Yu-Gi-Oh! is a Trading Card Game which contains game mechanics that symbolically represents sections of the Arthurian legend. In this thesis the mechanics of specific Yu-Gi-Oh! cards were compared to the Arthurian legend. From this analysis were design guidelines derived, on how to represent a narrative with game mechanics. Game objects can be referenced by listing associated cards. The name of a mechanic can help in symbolically tell a narrative. The exclusion of a mechanic can also represent something. The conditions for a mechanic to be available is an area where narrative can be implemented. If a narrative mechanic is surrounded by many other mechanics, the symbolism can be “drowned out”. There is a balance between effective symbolism and a good game mechanic. Symbolism Ludonarrative Dissonance Ludonarrative Resonance Narrative Mechanics Yu-Gi-Oh Trading Card Game Arthurian Legend Game Design Guidelines Information Systems
2	Ludonarrative design & player experience : Vocabulary usage and purpose of ludonarrative exploration Blomquist, Sanna January 2023 (has links) This paper deals with the differing vocabulary between academic and player discussions when it comes to discussing gaming experiences. The main terminology that is explored is ludonarrative dissonance and ludonarrative harmony along with its usage. Ludonarrative design is connected to a handful of other terminologies such as environmental storytelling and agency, which in my research I take a look at how this affects the player and their experience. The research method is the creation and usage of a taxonomy of vocabulary to attempt to bridge the discussions between players, designers and academics. Ludonarrative dissonance ludonarrative harmony player experience environmental storytelling narrative storytelling agency Information Systems, Social aspects
3	“WHAT IS YOUR DPS, HERO?” : Ludonarrative dissonance and player perception of story and mechanics in MMORPGs. Karavatos, Athanasios January 2017 (has links) This thesis studies the MMORPGs and the ludonarrative dissonance that exist in the complexity of their design. Given the massive multiplayer nature of these games, players of different ambitions and gameplay preference need to coexist, which is a massive challenge for both the players themselves and the designers of these worlds. The balance of these two major aspects of the game, what affects the players and this tension, is the focal point of this thesis. By conducting a survey through various MMORPG player bases, this thesis concludes that this tension is not only a balance between narrative and mechanics but of other aspect as well. These aspects, intertextuality and community, this thesis argues, are the extra aspects that are tight connected with the balancing of narrative and mechanics in a MMORPG and the creation of these complex games and world. All these aspects are affected by the design decisions and affecting of how the players perceive the game world. MMORPG Narrative Ludonarrative Dissonance Design Annan elektroteknik och elektronik
4	The Player’s Journey: Ludology and Narratology in Modern Gaming Fuchs, Angelica 01 January 2018 (has links) This thesis examines the evolution of gaming criticism (specifically ludology and narratology) and games as a medium of expression through the use of case studies. These case studies look at some of the core aspects of four major titles (The Last of Us, Horizon Zero Dawn, various BioWare games and Journey) and survey how these games work to effectively employ a narrative while maintaining an immersive, intuitive system for the player to interact with. Through these titles, the thesis suggests that in order to gain a full scope of a game’s intentions, studies should analyze more than the base story or gameplay, but rather the correlations between them as well as the ways that the visuals and audio aspects interact and enhance the narrative. Furthermore, it suggests the importance of creating gameplay that works with the story in order to ensure that the player always feels as though they have a stake in the outcome of the game, regardless of the nature of the narrative. video games ludonarrative narratology ludology Other English Language and Literature Other Film and Media Studies
5	A Matter of Perspective : A Qualitative study of Player-presence in First-person Video Games Hansson, Mikael, Karlsson, Stefan January 2016 (has links) In this study we aimed to investigate the process through which players of video games situate, and form an understanding of their presence within the virtual game environment. This study specifically investigates this process in games played through a first person perspective with the intention of minimising the amount of visual information provided the participants. For this purpose we created two scenarios within a videogame environment specifically design for the study. A total of thirteen participants took part in the study, and after each season a semi structured interview was performed. In a qualitative content analysis we identified patterns and commonalities ascertaining to our line of questioning, and conclude that while the player-presence relationship would appear to be largely dependent on the individual’s type of play, the varying focus on either narratology or ludology in our two scenarios did indeed influence the participants to approach this relationship similarly within the separate groups. Finally we defined four types of player-presence relationship, and how they can be said to relate to the varying ludonarrative dynamics within the two specified genres, as well as the varying types of play observed amongst the participants in our study. first-person video games identification identity self self-perception perception immersion narrative user-study charakter fictional role-playing narratology ludology ludonarrative ludonarrative dissonance walking simulator crafting survival Dear Esther Minecraft player presence role
6	Ludonarrative Harmony : Music production through the lens of game design Westberg, Jacob January 2022 (has links) This is a study of how game design has influenced my artistic process as a music producer fora video game called Sang: The Desert Blade. The artistic practice is used to explore a conceptin game design called ludonarrative. The experiences gathered from this exploration arepresented with examples of music that have been created and implemented for the gameduring this study. The music examples are contextualized together with video documentationfrom my creative process and video recordings of the game. The study concludes that videogame music is directly interconnected with game design and its aesthetics is directly affectedby the degree to which a music producer is included in the development team. The study alsoshows how unpredictability is a fundamental part of game design and suggests how it can beexplored in future artistic research of video game music. / Det här är en studie om hur speldesign har påverkat min konstnärliga process sommusikproducent för ett dataspel som heter Sang: The Desert Blade. Den konstnärligapraktiken används för att undersöka ett koncept inom speldesign som kallas ludonarrativ.Erfarenheterna från undersökningen presenteras genom musikexempel som har skapats ochimplementerats i spelet under studien. Musikexemplen kontextualiseras tillsammans medvideodokumentation från min kreativa process och med videoinspelningar från spelet. Studiendrar slutsatsen att dataspelsmusik är direkt sammanlänkad med speldesign och dess estetik ärdirekt påverkad av den grad som en musikproducent involveras i spelets utvecklingsteam.Studien visar också hur oförutsägbarhet är en fundamental del av speldesign och föreslår hurdet kan undersökas i framtida konstnärlig forskning av dataspelsmusik. Ludonarrative video game music music production game design video games Ludonarrativ dataspelsmusik musikproduktion speldesign dataspel Music Musik
7	Ludonarrative Space : En fallstudie av den Narrativa Paradoxen och spelarens upplevelse i spelet Outer Wilds / Ludonarrative Space : A case study of the Narrative Paradox and the player experience in the video game Outer Wilds Brun, Lisa, Jildestad, Jesper January 2023 (has links) The inherent conflict between the predetermined nature of narrative and the freedom that interactivity allows for, has been a major point of discussion in the field of interactive storytelling for many years. The Narrative Paradox, which initially described this tension, is seemingly getting closer than ever to being solved, but a singular solution with a definite answer has not been determined. This qualitative thesis aims to find a possible solution to the Narrative Paradox in how the multimodal components in the video game Outer Wilds construct meaning as well as ludonarrative coherence in conjunction with the player experience. The study also aims to discuss the importance of implementing game studies in media and communication research by arguing for the relevance of the medium in the field. In order to answer these questions, a multimodal discourse analysis of ludonarrative relationships arising in Youtube Let’s Plays was performed. By utilizing the narrative goals of Outer Wilds, theoretical solutions for the Narrative Paradox and the notion of narrative emerging from player interactions and motives, the results of the study show that Outer Wilds primarily uses Embedded Narrative as its main source of storytelling, while the game design and the open world within it allow for a high degree of Emergent behaviors through non-linear sequencing of events. The analysis also highlights the game as being purposefully designed for a specific type of player, which was reflected by one of the players experiencing close to a completely resonant playthrough of the game's introductory phase. While the ludonarrative structure of Outer Wilds in itself revealed similarities to the theoretical solutions of the Narrative Paradox, the analysis of the player experience in Outer Wilds provided insight into the importance of players’ motives as an essential part in the game design process of minimizing the tension between narrative and interactivity in video games. Ludonarrative Narrative Paradox Outer Wilds Semiotics Multimodality Multimodal discourse analysis Ludology Narratology Player experience Media and Communications Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap
8	Gaze not upon the * : Paganism and history use within digital games / Låt ej din blick beskåda * : Hedonism och historiebruk inom digitala spel de Millo, Cole January 2021 (has links) This bachelor thesis goal is to explore how paganism has expressed itself within the world of digitalgames through three different examples. It builds onto already existing research around videogames and history use as well as my own term paper that touched upon this subject. This thesis willbe done using academic literature concerning digital games, history use and paganism from Russiaas well as Japan. history digital games paganism religion folklorism ludonarrative framednarrative japan russia hedonism historie bruk digitala spel religion folklorism Japan Ryssland History Historia History of Religions Religionshistoria
9	”Run you bastards! I’m coming for you all!” : En narrativ och processretorisk analys av Tomb Raider / "Run you bastards! I'm coming for you all!" : A Narrative and Procedurally Rhetorical Analysis of Tomb Raider Wahlsten, Christoffer January 2016 (has links) Uppsatsen tar sig – med utgångspunkt i en analys av spelet Tomb Raider (2013) – an frågan om hur karakterisering genomförs inom interaktiva dataspel. Wahlsten väljer att använda sig dels av Sonja K Foss metod för narrativ analys, dels av Ian Bogosts procedurala retorik för att visa hur karaktären Lara Croft konstrueras under loppet av spelet. Dessa två metoder används för att kartlägga verktygen med vilka spelets narrativ presenteras, såväl de interaktiva som de icke-interaktiva. Uppsatsen visar tydligt och med många exempel att det finns en spänning mellan narrativets krav och spelarens intressen som ifrågasätter idén om att interaktiva spel i första hand påverkar genom immersion - tvärt om är spelen uppbyggda på så sätt att spelaren förutsätts dels identifiera sig med huvudkaraktären, dels ta avstånd från och använda denna som ’en virtuell leksak’ under loppet av spelet. Därmed pekar också Wahlsten ut ett tämligen okänt men mycket intressant forskningsområde för retorikvetenskapen. Wahlsten är medveten om att hans val av studieobjekt inte är självklart inom retoriken, men argumenterar väl för behovet av att studier av spel/Virtual Reality är och i synnerhet i framtiden bör vara, ett centralt område inom retorikforskningen / The essay asks the question how characterization in video games is accomplished, with the subject of analysis being the video game Tomb Raider (2013). Wahlsten chooses to use the methodology of Sonja K Foss for the narrative analysis, in addition to Procedural Rhetoric coined by Ian Bogost. These two methodologies are used to map out the tools used to construct the narrative of the game, which includes interactive one as well as non-interactive ones. The essay clearly shows that there is a definite tension between the demands of the narrative on the player that puts into question the idea of interactive games mainly influencing through immersion. On the contrary, the game is constructed in such a way that the player is expected to identify with the playable character, while also motivating the player to distance itself from the character and use it as a sort of “virtual plaything”. Wahlsten thus highlights a fairly obscure but also highly interesting field of study within the Rhetorical sciences. Wahlsten is aware the object of study is not an obvious one within the field Rhetoric, but argues for the need of studies of games and Virtual Reality, and the importance of them for Rhetorical sciences in the future. Procedural Rhetoric Rhetoric Video Games Narrative Analysis Tomb Raider Lara Croft Ludology Characterization Ludonarrative Dissonance PC Games Female Characters Processretorik retorik TV-spel narrativ analys Tomb Raider Lara Croft ludologi karaktärisering ludonarrativ dissonans datorspel kvinnliga karaktärer
10	Secondary World: The Limits of Ludonarrative Dannelly, David 01 January 2014 (has links) Secondary World: The Limits of Ludonarrative is a series of short narrative animations that are a theoretical treatise on the limitations of western storytelling in video games. The series covers specific topics relating to film theory, game design and art theory: specifically those associated with Gilles Deleuze, Jean Baudrillard, Jay Bolter, Richard Grusin and Andy Clark. The use of imagery, editing and presentation is intended to physically represent an extension of myself and my thinking process and which are united through the common thread of my personal feelings, thoughts and experiences in the digital age. Ludonarrative ludonarrative dissonance secondary world virtuality actual virtual hyperreality the real game design gilles deleuze simulation storytelling video game narrative ludology mind extension hypothesis virtual reality immediacy transparent immediacy jay bolter tolkien film theory art theory game studies andy clark appropriation associative thought animation thesis video art 2-d animation video games thinking process video installation video game art sign signifier signified the matrix nasa the last of us lucas pope papers please the stanley parable yahtzee croshaw zero punctuation persistence of vision immersion Film and Media Studies Game Design

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