Sentences with phrase «of video game narratives»

This studio perfected the art of video game narratives in its The Walking Dead Season 1 title, which went on to win a plethora of awards the year it was released.

At one end of the video game narrative spectrum, there are the games that have an idea of how they should play and elements are deducted from the story in order to facilitate the gameplay elements.

Not exact matches

When it comes to storytelling, video games have never been a patch on novels or films, usually emphasising action at the expense of narrative.

«Importantly, this effect was specific to the condition in which participants actively engaged in the games narration, while the mere exposure to the narrative video game did not affect theory of mind, in comparison to playing a neutral video game.»

«The earliest video games really had very little in common with other forms of narrative entertainment,» said Bowman.

Visual novels are a medium using the narrative style of Literature, but in a digital format that could technically be considered a Video Game.

As with its predecessors, it's a rare game that earns its difficulty through the weight of its decisions rather than its gameplay, and it sets an increasingly high bar for narrative excellence in video games.

The current rash of movies based on toys, or comic books, or video games, or fairy tales, exists to canonize the narrative building blocks of childhood, to provide frameworks for all your stories about Spider - Man or Megatron or Snow White, and then to sell you specially licensed toys so you can keep playing those stories out.

Storytelling in video games can be a hit or miss endeavor, with the best games nailing the basic tenets of good narrative, and the subpar games dying under the strain of too much exposition.

Tilton demonstrates in this video game score that he has all the hallmarks of someone who would be a great film composer — not just the composition itself (which is beyond reproach — the orchestration in particular is so impressive) but also his dramatic sense, which is honed to provide a gripping narrative here.

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is still one of the best video game stories of all time, and although the quality of COD single - player narratives have tended to fluctuate in recent years, there's still that sense of drama and action that I crave.

I'd say its cobbled - together story, brutal violence, and stylistic excess are comparable to a video game, but that would be an insult to some games (and I'm not being sarcastic, as there are definitely games that are the result of coming to grips with narrative and learning to channel the medium into something relatively fulfilling).

Although its overwhelming logic is hence from video games — «I've never made it this far,» Cage tells his followers at one point, when asked what comes next — Edge of Tomorrow works best as a gleeful riff on the narrative tricks endemic to the cinema, an art defined more by editing than by images.

Hammered by the idiocy of formula television and video games, a generation is forming that has no feeling for narrative and character.

The second and third games and The Room built off their worlds, delivering some of the most memorable narratives in video game history (anyone who has played Silent Hill 2 to completion and claims not to remember it is lying).

Over the last generation, Sony seems to have taken it upon itself to drive the cause of truly adult video game narrative and, as this crusade has continued, certain key tropes have begun to crystalise.

In an era where people are constantly feeling vaguely screwed over by big - budget video games, it's a narrative a lot of us can get behind.

Gone are exposition - heavy cutscenes, long - winded fits of dialogue and various other tropes most commonly associated with video game narratives.

Just be prepared for a narrative that seeks to meld the modern worlds of thrill - seeking kinetic action (as our private video game - happy living room lives are like) and of shoegazey possibly - overly emotive vulnerability (as my and probably your outdoor life is).

The plot of Battle Los Angeles is only a few dialogue scenes removed from the objective - based narratives of countless video games concerning warfare in modern times.

Video Game of the Year The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - CD Projekt / CD Projekt Red Mobile Game of the Year Her Story - Sam Barlow Table Top Game of the Year Pandemic Legacy - Z - Man Games Excellence in Gameplay Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain - Konami Excellence in Art Bloodborne - Sony Computer Entertainment / FromSoftware Excellence in Animation Rise of the Tomb Raider - Square Enix / Crystal Dynamics Excellence in Technical Achievement The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - CD Projekt / CD Projekt Red Excellence in Visual Achievement The Order: 1886 - Sony Computer Entertainment / Ready at Dawn Excellence in Narrative The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - CD Projekt / CD Projekt Red Excellence in Design Bloodborne - Sony Computer Entertainment / FromSoftware Excellence in SFX Star Wars Battlefront - Electronic Arts / EA DICE Excellence in Musical Score Ori and the Blind Forest - Microsoft Studios / Moon Studios Excellence in Multiplayer Rocket League - Psyonix Excellence in Convergence Batman: Arkham Knight - Warner Bros..

«Genital Jousting's story mode is the greatest narrative ever created for the medium of video games.

He is currently researching how students read and engage with non-traditional texts like video game narratives, manga, horror, fantasy, etc. as well as the effects of inquiry teaching on teachers, students, and learning.

Unlike videos and a lot of other forms of media, games are usually non-linear narratives.

Seven Steps Online already contains a plethora of resources relating to Narrative Writing — training videos, PowerPoints, Lesson Plans, Text Type Exemplars, Writing Samples, Action Activities, Templates, Game Cards and a Marking Guide.

Turbomedia What digital comics pioneer Balak collectively calls «Turbomedia» is a method of graphic storytelling that uses narrative tools from comics, animation, and video games adapted to tell stories made specifically for digital reading.

I was into video games, movies and comics, all these different narrative art forms and things that were centered on creativity and somehow music wasn't part of that.

Part of our ethos at Chaos Created for Ali and I is that whatever we create for Windows Phone will always be narrative driven, feature live action video and have a twist on the traditional game element, whatever that might be.

between EUR 10.000 and EUR 150.000 for developing a concept or a project (activities to the point that the concept leads to a playable prototype or trial version) for a Video Game of highly innovative and creative narrative storytelling games designed for commercial exploitation for PCs, consoles, mobile devices, tablets, smart phones and other technologies.

While I appreciate the careful detail and thought put into the narrative of Quantum Break, this is still a video game at its core, and how a game plays will always be the most important aspect when determining its overall fun factor.

The democratisation of game development is high on Chet Faliszek's agenda, especially when it comes to experimenting with new ways to create video games narrative via artificial intelligence

Though this is not a new idea for video game narratives, what stands out in Cave Story is that these choices may not be apparent to the player, who may just go along with a specific choice because it is expected from them based on previous years of experience playing other games.

A Profound Waste of Time is a new magazine from the UK, focusing on — says its successful Kickstarter campaign blurb — «a bold new video game culture magazine, a lovingly produced home to great writing on the medium and its accompanying narratives».

Players who want to feed banknotes to an already - overrated egotist are advised to do so with all haste, but those with any regard for quality in interactive storytelling and the narrative structure of video games should look elsewhere.

Video games are one of our most interesting and engaging narrative mediums, so why do business plans appear to have such a problem with portrayals of sex and relationships?

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In video games such as God of War 1, Splinter Cell, and Fable 2 the narrative revolves around a man seeking revenge the death of female family members.

The video features gameplay footage and discussions with key team members who talk about what makes the game's blend of narrative with...

The video game BioShock Infinite took players to an alternate U.S. and a story filled with philosophy and a rich narrative — but also a lot of violence.

In this edition I talk with Chris Suellentrop, video game critic for the New York Times, and Steve Gaynor of the Fullbright Company, an indie game studio developing Gone Home, a finalist for the Excellence in Narrative award at the Indpendent Games Festival later this month.

A narrative - driven death positive video game where you play as a mortician tasked with running a funeral home — preparing the bodies of the deceased (via embalming or cremation), attending their funerals and listening to their loved ones» stories, and running the business.

How closely will your movie echo the narrative of the 2013 Tomb Raider video game?

In an era of video games when developers often supplement narrative for great graphics, Naughty Dog prove with the Uncharted series that both can live in perfect harmony.

Please join me for our next video in which we will continue our discussion of the Women as Background Decoration trope by examining the growing trend of exploiting sexual violence as a plot device in game narratives.

The video itself is narrated by Senior Producer Ben Mattes and Gameplay Director Michael McIntyre at WB Games Montréal and guides viewers through the mechanics of the new title, highlighting the game's deep combat system and narrative.

An occasionally dark tale full of humor, emotion, and memorable characters, if you're even the slightest bit interested in narrative focused video games, you owe it to yourself to experience Grim Fandango Remastered.

The selection of titles for the Festival aims to affirm the status of video games as culture, and as a design object, showing the state of the art in narrative, experimental and political games.

Acknowledgments List of Figures Foreword Chapter 1: The Father of Modern Video Games Chapter 2: Spatial Narratives: Characters in their Worlds Chapter 3: From Games to Experiences: Designing for User Freedom and Unique Expression Chapter 4: Revolutionizing Gameplay: Casual Games and Mature Audiences Chapter 5: In His Own Words: Transcript of Miyamoto's 1999 Game Developer Conference Keynote Chapter 6: A Continuing Legacy Gameography Works Cited Index

It has a deep lore and history for those who look for it, a diverse roster of characters without belonging into most of the awful tropes they usually fall prey to, a simple yet really customizable combat system, and one of the better narratives I've seen in a video game.

Developer LKA.it have released a new video for first - person narrative adventure The Town of Light that details the game's creepy doll Charlotte.