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[ACM Press the International Conference - Raleigh, North Carolina (2012.05.29-2012.06.01)] Proceedings of the International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games - FDG '12 - A narrative theory of games

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Book ID
121655499
Publisher
ACM Press
Year
2012
Weight
815 KB
Category
Article
ISBN
1450313337

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✦ Synopsis

This paper presents a narrative theory of games, building on standard narratology, as a solution to the conundrum that has haunted computer game studies from the start: How to approach software that combines games and stories?
Categories and Subject Descriptors
K.8.0. [Personal Computing]: Games

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