Game Stories

Week 9 Reading

The first reading is about how stories need a hero and it talks about how myths and old stories have been breed into humans as the people who could convince tribes that the preservation of the tribe was more important than the individuals life is more important than their own would have had the best chance of survival and so these are the genes that would have lasted the longest and we more than likely possess. It talks about how stories give us purpose and without them life would seem pointless. 

The second reading talks about how games are not films and films are not plays. He breaks down how films had to adapt after they started as they were thought to be like plays which we know films obviously aren't, it then talks about how games are different to films but they still need story. It suggests that games without stories attract small crowd and don't really keep an audience which I don't think is really true as games such as Fifa and Call of Duty maintain a huge fan base each yea despite no major story or it not being the main aspect of the game. Also another really good example of this not applying is Fortnite despite it not being everyone's cup of tea you can't deny that it is extremely popular and successful. 

(This is an image of Fortnite taken from Flickr)