Experiential Narrative in Game Environments

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Authors:	Calleja Gordon
Source:	Breaking New Ground: Innovation in Games, Play, Practice and Theory
	London: Brunel University, September, 2009
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This paper explores the contentious notion of experiential narrative and proposes the first step in a narrative framework for game environment. It argues for a shift in emphasis from story-telling, the dominant mode of narrative in literature and cinema, to story generation. To this effect the paper forwards a perspective on experiential narrative that is grounded in the specific qualities of the game. This avoids the over-generalization that tends to accompany discussions of experiential narrative while retaining the cognitive dimension in play.

Keywords: Alterbiography, Narrative, Experience, Story