Yep – the talking head. In God of War, the player must sail around the Lake of the Nine pretty regularly. While the player is in the boat, Mimir tells Atreus stories about the history of the Nine ...

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Some RPGs like Neverwinter Nights prioritize a linear narrative over player choice for a focused and satisfying gameplay experience. Games like Pillars of Eternity offer impactful choices within a ...

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JRPGs have traditionally focused more on linear narratives, though certain series embrace this structure fully and do so ...

Ken Levine outlined ideas for building replayable narrative at a talk at GDC 2014. The Irrational Games founder and BioShock creator said he had taken "linear narrative pretty far" over his 19 years ...

This is more of an observation and question to start a discussion than an article. The question first popped in my mind when I was getting notes back on a story I'm currently writing. On a story that ...

BioShock creator Ken Levine said during a panel at GDC 2014 that his next title won't be a linear narrative as "narratively-driven games tend to have poor replay value." During the panel attended by ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Central to the world of thirteenth-century Galician-Portuguese song are the Cantigas de Santa Maria (CSM), on whose narrative cantigas de ...