I’m a Piscean. People say that Pisceans are dreamy yet very obedient. When it comes to game, I’m confused. My dreamy character suppose to love emergence narrative where you can only know what happen to the game as you play it. Just like the SIM series where you can chose everything that is going to happen to your characters in the game. But I hate that. I love to play simple game (the one that nowadays can only be found in a game boy). I love the Mario Brothers series, Islander and all those embedded narrative game. So, does your horoscope determine your game choice?
Before I learn that there was two type of narrative in games, I have never actually thought of it. I just knew that I love some games and hate the others. No reasons why. Now I know that…
Embedded Narrative: pre-generated narrative content that exist prior to a player’s interaction with the game and
Emergent Narrative: arises from the set of rules governing interaction with the game system.
(Salen and Zimmerman, Rules of Play)
A combine of both should create a better game because users are able to make their own decision yet at the same time follows some guidelines that were made by the developer. For example in an adventure game, it does go from one level to another, from a city to a jungle to an ocean. Nevertheless, we are able to determine what type of weapons we would use to fight our enemies and what type of vehicles we would use in each scenes or levels. By using different weapons and vehicles a different narrative will be created.
In a way, our maturity and experience in playing games does make us evolve from playing games with embedded narrative (which is quite easy), to a game with an emergent narrative (a craze for 10 year olds) to something that combines both. The reason of playing those games also contributes to the type of games that we chose. We will chose an easy game to relax, a moderate one to impress our mates (difficult ones will sometimes make us look bad) and the hard cores to show who’s the boss. Thus, men are more engaged into games, simply because they love challenges and women have lots of other important things to do than just to play games.
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Comment by Butch — May 31, 2005 @ 6:38 am
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Comment by Butch — June 1, 2005 @ 4:36 am
Well I’m a Taurean, and I have a short temper (5ft 6) so I like games that don’t have pretend impossible bits that can only be solved by countless attempts like the final spectre wolf combat scene in P2 Harry Potter.
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