Study Task 2 - Reading and Understanding Texts

More than a Game: The Computer Game as Fictional FormBarry Atkins (2003)

Concepts
Computer games are a significant form of storytelling, and are different from novels, plays and films.

Key Quotes/Key Points
“If the computer game is another form of fiction, … , then it is different in more than mere technicalities of form from film, TV or prose fiction.”

“There is a presentation of chance over design”

Examples
"the digital Lara Croft is a digital actor"
(p. 31)

Real World Examples
Video games that offer choices/question morals;
Telltale games; Wolf Among Us, The Walking Dead etc
Infamous
Mass Effects series
Life is Strange
Visual novels

Interactive Books;
Choose your Adventure books
Usborne Puzzle adventure books

How this is related to animation and my theme
Interactive storytelling in video games;
Could be future of storytelling?,
More effective that impersonal/detached/ non-linear storytelling?
Why it works; illusion of choice? replayability? moral exploration?

Study Task 1 - Initial Ideas

Highlighted are topics I'm particularly interested in

I am most interested in gaming and interactive storytelling, and immersive animation, since it has many aspects I could investigate:

• The future of immersive animation
• Technique for animating for video games 
• Presentation of interactive storytelling

I could also extend my results using polls, surveys and experiments