Game Stories

 https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/video-games-stories/524148/

https://www.polygon.com/features/2019/1/10/18165611/how-to-write-a-video-game-story-narrative-building-tips

https://qz.com/quartzy/1764645/how-video-game-storytelling-both-is-and-is-not-like-literature/

I enjoyed this week's reading material as I found that instead of looking at games as a series of building blocks that are like boxes needing to be ticked it examined something closer to what makes a player want to sit back and just enjoy the game they are playing. I was excited to read the case study on Mass Effect 2 as it is a game that is, in ways leaps and bounds ahead of of some story driven games of today. This can be seen when decisions made in the first game have a lasting and major impact on Mass Effect 2 and with so many RPGs a lot of decisions feel worthless or meaningless in the game's larger scope, something Mass Effect 2 avoids especially with one if not the greatest endgame missions from an immersive and interactive story point of view 

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