Game Stories

Another week, another reading blog.

Level 8 Introduction and Readings was one of the articles I read this week. It talks briefly about the diversion to go into the whole "can games be art?" thing.

There are 4 reasons why waste our time retreading old ground.

1. The concept of Fun and how to make games more enjoyable. Fun is not the only purpose of game design and in fact that some games can be successful in their design goals even if they are not fun in the way that games are.
2. It is a debate that has been going on for ages. It comes up in conversation among designers from time to time. 
3. Art games that are made primarily for the purpose of artistic expression are reaching a critical mass. A lot of art games are very simple and small in scope, it is made by a single person in a short period of time. 
4. Know enough about the art history and art criticism to be dangerous.

Into the Woods: A Practical Guide to the Hero's Journey articles was about making a story to back up your game. Having a story behind the game will make it more fun. 

The article gave an example if it was a mythical game where they created a story about the characters can interact with other characters. With the backstory, the characters can interact with each other and complete the game by creating a story.

What Every Game Developer Needs to Know about Story was the last article I read. This one was about how the story in the game isn't like a story for a movie. Games aren't movies and Movies aren't plays.

Making a story for the game, you should keep it simple and make sure that it works. Usually, the story goes like:

• Have a hero.
• There is an incident.
• A gap opens up between the hero and the orderly life.
• Hero has to take a risk to overcome the obstacles that come to them.
• Reversal, something new happens or the hero learns something that they didn't know before and the world is back to normal again.

Video Games (XBox);
Source: Pixabay;