Innovative Storytelling in Video Games by Kristine Tree https://padlet.com/kristinejenifertree/itlk4ikr0ttu 'The Stanley Parable' en-us 2016-08-17 17:04:25 UTC 2016-08-17 18:11:04 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Playcontrol.png 'The Stanley Parable' game trailer kristinejenifertree https://padlet.com/kristinejenifertree/itlk4ikr0ttu/wish/118622184 The Stanley Parable is an interactive fiction video game designed by Davey Wreden. The game originally released on July 27, 2011 as a free modification for Half-Life 2. A high-definition stand-alone remake, including new story elements, was again designed by Davey Wreden together with Source engine modeler William Pugh, under the Galactic Cafe studio name. The remake was announced and approved via Steam Greenlight in 2012, and was released on October 17, 2013 for Microsoft Windows. Later updates of the game added support for OS X on December 19, 2013, and for Linux on September 9, 2015.
While both the mod and the remake use the first-person perspective common to other Source engine mods, there are no combat or other action-based sequences. Instead, the player guides Stanley, the game's protagonist, through a surreal environment while the narrator, voiced by British actor Kevan Brighting, delivers exposition. The player has the opportunity to make numerous decisions on which paths to take, and because at times the narrator says what Stanley will do next, the player can choose to ignore the narration and make a different choice. Every choice made by the player is commented on by the narrator, and depending on the choices the player makes, they will encounter different endings to the game before it restarts.

Wreden envisioned the game after considering that most major video game titles confine the user to its rules, and considered how to construct a narrative to challenge that notion.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stanley_Parable]]> 2016-08-17 17:09:53 UTC https://padlet.com/kristinejenifertree/itlk4ikr0ttu/wish/118622184 Excerpt from 'Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets' kristinejenifertree https://padlet.com/kristinejenifertree/itlk4ikr0ttu/wish/118624004
"Hello, Nick," said Harry. 

"Hello, hello," said Nearly Headless Nick, starting and looking round. He wore a dashing, plumed hat on his long curly hair, and a tunic with a ruff, which concealed the fact that his neck was almost completely severed. He was pale as smoke, and Harry could see right through him to the dark sky and torrential rain outside. 

"You look troubled, young Potter," said Nick, folding a transparent letter as he spoke and tucking it inside his doublet. 

"So do you," said Harry. 

"Ah," Nearly Headless Nick waved an elegant hand, "a matter of no importance. . . . It's not as though I really wanted to join. . . . Thought I'd apply, but apparently I 'don't fulfill requirements' -" 

In spite of his airy tone, there was a look of great bitterness on his face. 

"But you would think, wouldn't you," he erupted suddenly, pulling the letter back out of his pocket, "that getting hit forty-five times in the neck with a blunt axe would qualify you to join the Headless Hunt?" 

"Oh - yes," said Harry, who was obviously supposed to agree. 

"I mean, nobody wishes more than I do that it had all been quick and clean, and my head had come off properly, I mean, it would have saved me a great deal of pain and ridicule. However -" Nearly Headless Nick shook his letter open and read furiously: "'We can only accept huntsmen whose heads have parted company with their bodies. You will appreciate that it would be impossible otherwise for members to participate in hunt activities such as Horseback Head-Juggling and Head Polo. It is with the greatest regret, therefore, that I must inform you that you do not fulfill our requirements. With very best wishes, Sir Patrick Delaney-Podmore.'" 

Fuming, Nearly Headless Nick stuffed the letter away. ]]> 2016-08-17 17:18:59 UTC https://padlet.com/kristinejenifertree/itlk4ikr0ttu/wish/118624004 ACTIVITY kristinejenifertree https://padlet.com/kristinejenifertree/itlk4ikr0ttu/wish/118624562 Read/watch the padlet to the left and the padlet below.]]> 2016-08-17 17:21:44 UTC https://padlet.com/kristinejenifertree/itlk4ikr0ttu/wish/118624562 ACTIVITY kristinejenifertree https://padlet.com/kristinejenifertree/itlk4ikr0ttu/wish/118624884 Compare the two pieces of narrative shown. Note their similarities and their differences.

  • Both pieces of fiction have a narrator. What is the narrator like in each of the excerpts?
  • How does the change in narrator effect the narrative?
  • What is the purpose of the narrator in both of these forms of fiction?

Write a 500 word response analysing the impact the narrator has in each text and how this changes the player/reader's experience.

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