A
"narrative experience" refers to the overall story or account that someone goes through. It could involve reading a book, watching a movie, or playing a video game where there is a beginning, middle, and end to the story that the person follows and connects with.
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These things all work together to create a different kind
of narrative experience, one with its own pacing, characters, plot, and dialogue, separate from the explicit story.
Its first episode is a brilliant
narrative experience with believable characters, gorgeous locations and a wonderful atmosphere.
Most take the conventional route of touching on the most important moments in their subject's life, turning what should be a
satisfying narrative experience into an exhausting show reel.
The team also focused on the game's story as one of the main features, with a script that invites the player to travel alongside the main protagonist in a
surprising narrative experience.
Rather than navigating a static tree of binary decisions, we are strongly focusing on providing an
organic narrative experience that feels personal and unique to everyone who plays it.
Night in the Woods, an extraordinary
narrative experience by Scott Benson, Bethany Hockenberry, and Alec Holowka, tells a different type...
Game designer Jack de Quidt asks Oculus whether its VR headset — and Touch controllers — will really deliver new narrative experiences
-- Demonstrate good problem - solving skills, particularly when it comes to
delivering narrative experiences via game systems instead of traditional linear approaches.
Hajime Tabata (the director of FFXV) also directed Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core and Final Fantasy Type 0; both of which delivered satisfying
narrative experiences well beyond what main - line Final Fantasy games have done for some time.
The four - minute visual work of art is a fully - immersive, 360 °
narrative experience set in the world of the upcoming feature film The Divergent Series: Insurgent and features stars from the film including Academy Award winner Kate Winslet, Miles Teller and Mekhi Phifer.
The Red Strings Club is a cyberpunk
narrative experience about fate and happiness featuring the extensive use of pottery, bartending and impersonating people on the phone to take down a corporate conspiracy.
Unbound Creations is an independent game studio focusing on crafting rich, believable worlds, immersive gameplay, and
strong narrative experience.
Home is an
impressive narrative experience that challenges players to construct their own story; it may be short but it's definitely a case of quality over quantity and offers an exciting glimpse into the future of storytelling through interactive mediums.
Indie games have been a reliable source of emotional, nuanced stories for several years now, and the latest from Giant Sparrow may be one of the finest
narrative experiences crafted in a long time.
Our very own T. Blake Braddy called it a «
fine narrative experience» with «some minor issues» in his review of the PC version that released back in October, allowing about six months for those issues to be addressed.
Wrong Number gives you the chance to control 13 different psychopathic shooters each with unique skill sets, offering brutal combat opportunities as the game's unique, retro visual style and immersive
narrative experience pull you fully in.
It's a game that hasn't aged well in the graphics and gameplay department though, so bringing that rich
narrative experience into a boiling pot with the jaw - dropping gameplay and graphics of Yakuza 6 is a recipe for major success.
In tracing these paths to and from Wave Hill, Jensen combines information about significant historical landscapes — whether stately homes or an august tree — with his
own narrative experience along these particular routes.
The term «Walking Simulator» is often used as a pejorative to dismiss narrative - based adventure games that are often light on gameplay elements, despite being primarily designed to deliver an
engaging narrative experience.
After researching violent media in the US, Ferguson and his team found that laboratory - based studies into the effects of violent games have provided «exposure to brief clips of media, rather than
full narrative experiences» and that «the resultant aggressive behaviours are also outside a real - world context in which the aggression appears to be sanctioned by the researchers themselves.»
The result is a highly immersive and very
inspired narrative experience that is more than capable of sustaining the legacy of an unquestionable milestone gaming universe.
A compelling three
hours narrative experience, sustained by an interesting memories playback mechanic and a good sound design, but without excelling in any particular department.
Based on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR level A2) developed by the Council of Europe, the five creative activities develop language and literacy
through narrative experiences.
We also have a better understanding of how exploration, story, and action interlock to tell what could be one of the genre's most
consistent narrative experiences.
This idea raised two questions in me: a.) Does modern linear video game storytelling convention allow for player -
authored narrative experiences that are possible but not prescribed?
With the Burial at Sea episodes, we are building a Rapture -
based narrative experience that is almost entirely built from scratch.»
2018 promises to grace us some truly
mesmerising narrative experiences, a fact has me fervently foaming at the mouth in eager anticipation like a crazy college student one the first day of spring break.