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• Playing horror : narrative and genre in Valve's Left 4 Dead Series 

  Schäfer, Iris (2013)

  The place of story and narrative in digital games has been a hotly contested topic within the field of Game Studies during the past two decades. Beyond the question of whether games can or should be used for telling stories, ...

• Story beats in videogames as value-driven choice-based unit operations 

  Mochocki, Michał; Koskimaa, Raine (Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan, 2021)

  We present a framework of story beats, defined as microunits of dramatic action, as a tool for the ludonarrative analysis of videogames. First, we explain the Goal - Action - Reaction - Outcome model of the story beat. ...

• ‘‘What an Eccentric Performance" : Storytelling in Online Let's Plays 

  Kerttula, Tero (Sage Publications, Inc., 2019)

  In this article, I examine the phenomenon called Let’s Play (LP) and conduct a narrative analysis on two LPs made of Sierra Entertainment’s Phantasmagoria games. The LPs tell viewers a story different from the one told in ...

• Ympäristökerronnan käyttö selviytymiskauhupeleissä : tapausesimerkki Resident Evil 7: Biohazard 

  Sivula, Elina (2023)

  Tämän pro gradu -tutkielman tavoitteena oli selvittää ympäristökerronnan käsitteen olemusta ja sen käyttöä videopeleissä. Aihetta lähestyttiin sekä teoreettisesti että käytännön kautta. Videopelien kerronnallisuuteen ja ...

• Texts (Un)hinged and Unfolded : Fantastical Narratives and Unrelated Spaces 

  Amey, Evgenia (Literary Geographies, 2023)