Jan

Chris Bateman tops off an amazing week of new contributors to IndustryBroadcast.com with his article titled “Between Stories and Games”.  In today’s piece Chris writes about the illusion that games don’t need stories, examining the completely overlooked implicity narrative inherent to all games from Chess, to Tetris to Quake and that instead of trying to rival the storytelling richness of traditional narrative mediums we should concentrate on what games truly excel at, which is tying “those implicit narrative situations tie into an explicit narrative, thus deepening the sense of involvement (and the mimicry) of a game”

Title: “Between Stories and Games“ – Original Article

Book: Beyond_Game_Design: Nine Steps Towards Creating Better Videogames, by Charles River Media

Written by: Chris Bateman(www.ihobo.com)

Read aloud by: Ryan Wiancko on January 9th, 2009