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