Narrative Logics

Changeful Tales

“Changeful Tales” is a blog series where I rework my dissertation into more bite-sized, readable, and visible ideas.

While narrative mechanics represent the ways a player can interact with a game’s story, let’s consider as well what the system can do with those interactions: the internal processes that act on player input, perform operations on it (simple or complex), and return new bits of story (or lexia). As a result of this loop, the player interprets their actions as operat...