Introduction

Welcome Everyone to the introduction to my Critical Studies blog. I am going to focus my attention on certain aspects of narrative elements in games

In the content of this blog I'll try to avoid matter of clash between Game Theorists (Ludologists) and Narrativists. On the other hand I'll present some ideas these two fronts represent.

My main task is to research views of theorists on dramatic elements in games, and I'll try to make some my points on the topic.

Bibliography

Eskelinen, Markku: The Gaming Situation. Paper presented at the Digital Arts and Culture conference, Providence April 2001.

Juul, Jesper. “Games Telling Stories? – A brief note on games and narratives.” Games Studies

1 (July 2001), available at http://www.gamestudies.org/.

The Borderlands. 2K Games. 2009 video embbeded from youtube. IGN review

Final Fantasy 7. Square Enix. 1997

The Witcher. CD Project Red. 2007 Trailer to the game available on youtube

Fallout. Bethesda Game Studios. 2008 video by

Warcraft 3. Blizzard Entertainment. 2002 video made by SilentPhil2 mods avvailable on http://www.fallout3nexus.com/

Soul Calibur 3. Namco. 2005

picture available on http://www.videogamesblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/mitsurugi-heishiro-in-soul-calibur-4.jpg

Katie Salen, Eric Zimmerman. Rules of Play - Game Design Fundamentals. 2004. Massachusetts

Call of Cthulhu - Dark Corners of the Earth. Bethesda Softworks. 2006 part of game walkthrough. video by ShieldRIL video available on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8Giz15ul6w&feature=player_embedded

Bibliography

Eskelinen, Markku:The Gaming Situation. Paper presented at the Digital Arts and Culture conference, Providence April 2001.

Juul, Jesper. “Games Telling Stories? – A brief note on games and narratives.” Games Studies

1 (July 2001), available at http://www.gamestudies.org/.

Katie Salen, Eric Zimmerman. Rules of Play - Game Design Fundamentals. 2004. Massachusetts

Ludography

Call of Cthulhu - Dark Corners of the Earth. Bethesda Softworks. 2006 part of game walkthrough. video by ShieldRIL video available onhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8Giz15ul6w&feature=player_embedded

The Borderlands. 2K Games. 2009 video embbeded from youtube. IGN review

Final Fantasy 7. Square Enix. 1997

The Witcher. CD Project Red. 2007 Trailer to the game available on youtube

Fallout. Bethesda Game Studios. 2008 video by

Warcraft 3. Blizzard Entertainment. 2002 video made by SilentPhil2 mods avvailable on http://www.fallout3nexus.com/

Soul Calibur 3. Namco. 2005

picture available on http://www.videogamesblogger.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/mitsurugi-heishiro-in-soul-calibur-4.jpg