Chapter 5 Agents in Space and Time: Fundamentals of Interactive Narrative Systems
In: Culture at Play: How Video Games Influence and Replicate Our World
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Lindsey Joyce
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Abstract
While digital interactive narrative games are invariably narrative, there are two key distinctions between traditional text-based narratives and digital interactive narrative games that affect how the latter are constructed and how we experience them: 1) in interactive narratives the narrator agent and character agent of text-based narratives are collapsed into a singular player agent, 2) in digital interactive narrative games, spatial construction is of a higher order of importance than in text-based narratives, and it is through this shift that player agency and interactivity are created.