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Forms and Functions of Endings in Narrative Digital Games (Hardcover) Loot Price: R4,086
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Forms and Functions of Endings in Narrative Digital Games (Hardcover): Michelle Herte

Forms and Functions of Endings in Narrative Digital Games (Hardcover)

Michelle Herte

Series: Routledge Advances in Game Studies

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This book looks closely at the endings of narrative digital games, examining their ways of concluding the processes of both storytelling and play in order to gain insight into what endings are and how we identify them in different media. While narrative digital games share many representational strategies for signalling their upcoming end with more traditional narrative media - such as novels or movies - they also show many forms of endings that often radically differ from our conventional understanding of conclusion and closure. From vast game worlds that remain open for play after a story's finale, to multiple endings that are often hailed as a means for players to create their own stories, to the potentially tragic endings of failure and "game over", digital games question the traditional singularity and finality of endings. Using a broad range of examples, this book delves deeply into these and other forms and their functions, both to reveal the closural specificities of the ludonarrative hybrid that digital games are, as well as to find the core elements that characterise endings in any medium. It examines how endings make themselves known to players and raises the question of how well-established closural conventions blend with play and a player's effort to achieve a goal. As an interdisciplinary study that draws on game studies as much as on transmedial narratology, Forms and Functions of Endings in Narrative Digital Games is suited for scholars and students of digital games as well as for narratologists yet to become familiar with this medium.

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Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Routledge Advances in Game Studies
Release date: September 2020
First published: 2021
Authors: Michelle Herte
Dimensions: 234 x 156 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 978-0-367-47991-6
Categories: Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies
Books > Computing & IT > Computer programming > General
Books > Computing & IT > Computer software packages > Computer games
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LSN: 0-367-47991-5
Barcode: 9780367479916

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