Games Telling stories? - A brief note on games and narratives

By Jesper Juul. Game Studies, 2001

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Genre and game studies: Toward a critical approach to video game genres (2006, background): “This article marks a critical departure from Juul (2001), arguing that genre is a category that needs to be rethought with a critical perspective in mind, because the current established genres accepted by the audience and industry do not take into account the complex layering of genre that occurs…”
Engaging by design: How engagement strategies in popular computer and video games can inform instructional design (2005, background): “Within the game design community, the role of narrative in games fuels an often passionate and ever ongoing debate (Aarseth, 2001; Frasca, 2001; Juul, 2001).”
Game object model version II: a theoretical framework for educational game development (2007, background): “For Juul (2001, – 44) ‘‘narratives are basically interpretative, whereas games are for-mal’’; games can tell stories, contain narrative elements, and show narrative structural sequences; games and stories do not share the same relationship as do novels and ﬁlms as there is conﬂict between the now…”