Narrative and Interactivity in Videogames

Narrative and Interactivity in Videogames

Authors

  • ROY SWANSON SÁNCHEZ Universidad de Sonora

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36799/el.v1i1.22

Keywords:

Videogames, narrative, procedural rhetoric, cybertex, narrative structure

Abstract

This study is a fragment of an ongoing PhD research about how videogames are capable of representing a story through processes and narrative strategies. This issue is tackled here by trying to find a middle ground on the debate of ludologists versus narratologists. The first ones consider that videogames are only capable of representing a fiction, while narratologisist argue that videogames are a new way to represent narratives. To archive said middle ground, this study focuses on understanding the organization of processes in videogames in hope for disentangling the many issues that arise between interactivity and narration.

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Author Biography

ROY SWANSON SÁNCHEZ, Universidad de Sonora

Lic, en Literaturas Hispánicas, Maestría en Humanidades y doctorando en el posgrado de Humanidades del Departamento de Letras y Lingüística de la Universidad de Sonora

References

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Published

2016-02-05

How to Cite

SWANSON SÁNCHEZ, R. (2016). Narrative and Interactivity in Videogames: Narrative and Interactivity in Videogames. Estudios λambda. Teoría Y práctica De La didáctica En Lengua Y Literatura. , 1(1), 63–83. https://doi.org/10.36799/el.v1i1.22

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 1 (2016)

Section

Articles of empirical research

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