Evan's Conclusion
Despite the slight stigma behind video games as an art form, the games industry has been pumping out games with excellent narratives for a while now, though especially in recent years. It's not just the triple-a industry that can put together movie-quality products anymore, and each year technology advances, we get more and more creative games from studios who can finally afford to make their stories come to life.
Video games can be a storytelling artifice just like any other form, be it novel, movie, or theater. The only difference between games and other narrative vehicles is that when you watch a movie or read a book, you're just absorbing information, whereas games have an interactivity to them that allows for fantastic levels of immersion.
I'm glad for the opportunity to talk about this subject on a blog like this, as it is a subject I find myself very invested in. I've run blogs for classes before, both on Wordpress and Blogger, but until now they've all been study-related in content. Having the chance to talk about a passion of mine was fun, and allowed me to revisit some games that have really influenced me in the past.
As far as technical issues go, the standout this go 'round was trying to get my account to mesh with our website so that I could start to post content. I was in contact with Blogger's tech support for a while before it smoothed over, but ultimately, it turned out fine.
If you've read this far, and somehow haven't checked out some of the other content here on this blog, I strongly urge you to take a look at some of the works presented by my talented group-members! The posts you'll find on here are varied, and you might discover something we've covered that you'd like to experience yourself.
Stories are meant to be shared, after all.
Video games can be a storytelling artifice just like any other form, be it novel, movie, or theater. The only difference between games and other narrative vehicles is that when you watch a movie or read a book, you're just absorbing information, whereas games have an interactivity to them that allows for fantastic levels of immersion.
I'm glad for the opportunity to talk about this subject on a blog like this, as it is a subject I find myself very invested in. I've run blogs for classes before, both on Wordpress and Blogger, but until now they've all been study-related in content. Having the chance to talk about a passion of mine was fun, and allowed me to revisit some games that have really influenced me in the past.
As far as technical issues go, the standout this go 'round was trying to get my account to mesh with our website so that I could start to post content. I was in contact with Blogger's tech support for a while before it smoothed over, but ultimately, it turned out fine.
If you've read this far, and somehow haven't checked out some of the other content here on this blog, I strongly urge you to take a look at some of the works presented by my talented group-members! The posts you'll find on here are varied, and you might discover something we've covered that you'd like to experience yourself.
Stories are meant to be shared, after all.
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