Storyplaying

1 - 1 Introduction: What is Storyplaying? [Seite 7]
1.1 - 1.1 Preliminaries: Medial Forms [Seite 12]
1.2 - 1.2 Preliminaries: Exclusions [Seite 16]
2 - 2 Video Games and Narrative [Seite 19]
2.1 - 2.1 Gameplay and Narrative [Seite 19]
2.1.1 - 2.1.1 Gameplay and Game Mechanics: The Rules of the Game [Seite 20]
2.1.2 - 2.1.2 Semanticization and Fictionalization: Towards Gameworlds [Seite 24]
2.2 - 2.2 Narrative Forms [Seite 37]
2.2.1 - 2.2.1 Passive Forms [Seite 37]
2.2.1.1 - 2.2.1.1 Exposition [Seite 38]
2.2.1.2 - 2.2.1.2 Cut scenes [Seite 38]
2.2.1.3 - 2.2.1.3 Loading Screen [Seite 40]
2.2.2 - 2.2.2 Actively Nodal Forms [Seite 40]
2.2.2.1 - 2.2.2.1 Player Actions [Seite 41]
2.2.2.2 - 2.2.2.2 Quick Time Event [Seite 41]
2.2.2.3 - 2.2.2.3 Dialogue tree [Seite 44]
2.2.2.4 - 2.2.2.4 Event trigger [Seite 47]
2.2.3 - 2.2.3 Dynamic Forms [Seite 49]
2.2.3.1 - 2.2.3.1 Non-player Character [Seite 49]
2.2.3.2 - 2.2.3.2 Timed Events/Intradiegetic Clock [Seite 52]
2.2.4 - 2.2.4 Digression: Architecture and Protocols [Seite 54]
3 - 3 Non-Unilinear Gameplay in Video Games [Seite 59]
3.1 - 3.1 Levels of Observation [Seite 59]
3.2 - 3.2 Non-Unilinear Existents [Seite 67]
3.3 - 3.3 Non-Unilinear Objectives [Seite 74]
4 - 4 Non-Unilinear Narrative in Video Games [Seite 81]
4.1 - 4.1 Non-Unilinearity in Quest-Based Narrative [Seite 87]
4.2 - 4.2 Non-Unilinear Narrative Outside of Quests [Seite 99]
4.2.1 - 4.2.1 Character [Seite 100]
4.2.2 - 4.2.2 Spatial Narrative [Seite 104]
5 - 5 Choice and Narrative in Video Games [Seite 118]
5.1 - 5.1 The Anatomy of a Player Choice [Seite 118]
5.2 - 5.2 Choice and Meaning [Seite 129]
5.3 - 5.3 Choice, Information, and Narration in Video Games [Seite 134]
5.4 - 5.4 Choice and Consequence in Video Games [Seite 143]
6 - 6 Narrative's Contrast Agent: Moral Choices [Seite 154]
6.1 - 6.1 Valorisation Rules [Seite 156]
6.2 - 6.2 Valorising Morality [Seite 161]
6.3 - 6.3 Ethics and Rules [Seite 169]
7 - 7 The Future of Storyplaying [Seite 175]
7.1 - 7.1 Media-Economic Aspects [Seite 176]
7.2 - 7.2 Media-Technological Aspects [Seite 177]
7.3 - 7.3 Artistic Potential of the Medium [Seite 183]
8 - Works Cited [Seite 187]
9 - Index [Seite 194]