Digital simulation & Transmedia Storytelling

This week, I’m a bit confused about the content they presented in class. The reason is I don’t understand the connection between simulation and narrative at first, as well as they shared a lot of examples of storytelling in the game, which makes me even more perplexed. The question popped up in my mind, how…

Participation

At first, I treat interactive narrative projects as the only type of participatory practice, but participation got a rich history among various of projects. The content my classmates presented in class broadened my understanding of the topic. They pointed out the significant changes towards media creation from the professional to individual participant mode with the…

Interactive and immersive narratives

  In this lecture, our classmates presented an overall understanding of interactive and immersive narratives. It might involve different technology and people’s physical action, like ‘mouse clicking, multi-touch tablet screen, activating censors in gallery installations’, even experienced in VR and AR. As a new role of storytelling, it has been used in a lot of…

Database Narrative

In week 4, it’s our turn to do the in-class presentation, and the theme is ‘Database Narrative’. When I read the definition of it, the first question comes to my mind is what is the difference between Non-linear and Database. In my views, I think database narrative is similar to the emergent story in Non-linear…

The non-linear narrative in documentary

What’s the difference between them? I believe a lot of people might be familiar with the linear narrative, no matter in the films, games or books, which is the story move from the beginning, the middle to the end in the preset sequence, such as the most of Hollywood films. When comes to non-linear storytelling,…

Storytelling in the video games ‘Inside’

As a girl seldom playing games, there is a mobile phone game called INSIDE(2017) attracted me deeply after playing only for ten minutes. The game starts with a boy running in a dark forest, no background music, no explaining or instruction for the game, but the player gets the feeling of something terrible happened. The…