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oapen-20.500.12657-496372022-01-25T10:57:27Z Narrative Mechanics Suter, Beat Bauer, René Kocher, Mela Suter, Beat Bauer, René Kocher, Mela Games Game Studies Game Design Media Culture Popular Culture Computer Games Media Aesthetics Digital Media Media Studies bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFD Media studies What do stories in games have in common with political narratives? This book identifies narrative strategies as mechanisms for meaning and manipulation in games and real life. It shows that the narrative mechanics so clearly identifiable in games are increasingly used (and abused) in politics and social life. They have »many faces«, displays and interfaces. They occur as texts, recipes, stories, dramas in three acts, movies, videos, tweets, journeys of heroes, but also as rewarding stories in games and as narratives in society - such as a career from rags to riches, the concept of modernity or market economy. Below their surface, however, narrative mechanics are a particular type of motivational design - of game mechanics. 2021-06-21T13:36:49Z 2021-06-21T13:36:49Z 2021 book ONIX_20210621_9783839453452_6 9783839453452 9783837653458 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/49637 eng Edition Medienwissenschaft application/pdf Attribution 4.0 International 9783839453452.pdf transcript Verlag transcript Verlag 10.14361/9783839453452 10.14361/9783839453452 b30a6210-768f-42e6-bb84-0e6306590b5c 9783839453452 9783837653458 transcript Verlag 82 362 Bielefeld open access
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What do stories in games have in common with political narratives? This book identifies narrative strategies as mechanisms for meaning and manipulation in games and real life. It shows that the narrative mechanics so clearly identifiable in games are increasingly used (and abused) in politics and social life. They have »many faces«, displays and interfaces. They occur as texts, recipes, stories, dramas in three acts, movies, videos, tweets, journeys of heroes, but also as rewarding stories in games and as narratives in society - such as a career from rags to riches, the concept of modernity or market economy. Below their surface, however, narrative mechanics are a particular type of motivational design - of game mechanics.
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