Video Game Narrative: Concepts and Practices for Structuring and Infusing Story in Games

Exposes three core concepts for understanding narration across the landscape of modern video games: the narrative program, or the ambitions and relationship between a game’s story and gameplay; the narrative structure, or the way the events and story’s interactive nature are laid out in the game; and narrative infusion, or the ways in which games include narrative materials outside a formal, “proper” story or narrative.