Reading 03


This week we had to make 4 annotated bibliography’s. This seemed like a daunting task when first looking at it but it actually wasn't even that bad it was just time consuming. My topic was stories in games and why they're important. I just took it one paper at a time. The research I came across was actually very interesting. The first paper was all about how stories evoke emotions and how game designers measure the emotions when testing the game and this can predict whether or not the games going to be successful.  

 

The second paper was about how games are set up so that the player becomes invested in the game the techniques used by game designers to encourage the player to become emotionally invested in the game. How they make the player feel become more attached to the character making them feel like they have control like they’re actually in the game. 

 

The third piece of writing I chose was an article on the importance of stories in human behaviour. How they’ve been around for centuries and they many purposes they serve as. 

Finally the last paper was about negative emotions in games why we feel them and also why we tolerate them because in real life they’re the sort of thing we would try to avoid it comes down to something called the paradox of fiction.


Below is a list of references to the papers and articles I read this week.

 

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Cicchirillo, V.J. (2020) The Impact of Video Game Character Viewpoints and Task on Perceptions of Cognitive and Similarity Identification, Masaryk University Press.

Hurst, K. The Importance of Storytelling and Story Creation [online], Available from: <https://www.pathstoliteracy.org/playing-words/why-it-important/importance-storytelling-and-story-creation> .

M. Kim and Y. Y. Doh (2017) Computational Modeling of Players’ Emotional Response Patterns to the Story Events of Video Games.

Van de Mosselaer, N. (2019) 'Only a Game? Player Misery Across Game Boundaries'. Journal of the Philosophy of Sport, Vol. 46 (2) 191-207.

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