Feedback Loop: Long Live the Shooter, the Shooter is Dead

June 13 Comments Off on Feedback Loop: Long Live the Shooter, the Shooter is Dead Category: Feed, Games, Nightmare Mode

The dispatches from E3 seem to indicate that the shooter remains the same. How long can its dominance last? What comes next?

Is it High Noon for shooters? In his latest post on Brainy Gamer, Michael Abbott seems to think so. He compares the current generation of shooter games to Westerns in 1959, the last year before they started to disappear.

Branching narrative schema and similar narrative structures

March 02 Comments Off on Branching narrative schema and similar narrative structures Category: Feed, HackText

Many mediums have a standard narrative structure, for journalism that structure is the inverted pyramid. The three act structure could almost be considered a meta-structure, as it is used in concert with other formats. However, TV tends to use a certain flavor of the 3 act structure. What structures are common in branching and interactive narratives? The […]

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