Video Games and Interactive Storytelling
As technology – and as these incredible artists that work on video games – continue to push the envelope the entire video game sector will explode. It’s not going to go away. If anything, it will take over.
-Shia LeBeouf, Actor1
Before we get into the meat of this chapter we want to take a moment to talk about video games, and video game development in general. It is very easy to view video games as a straightforward extension of the visual narrative storytelling techniques used in motion pictures and television. Frankly, this perspective is a mistake that has doomed any number of video game projects. There are similarities, yes, but there are significant differences. A great deal of this chapter ...
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