Réflexions sur les jeux avec sucre en poudre, poivre en grain… et un peu de vitriol.
This paper provides a critical overview of the notion of genre in game studies and in the video game industry, and establishes that genre is rooted not in game mechanics, but in game aesthetics; that is, play-experiences that share a phenomenological and pragmatic quality, regardless of their technical implementation.
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The cognitive process of gameplay is modeled as more than a circle, but a dynamic evolving process: the magic cycle. Playing a game is an ever-increasing mastery as the spirals get wider, tackling higher-order questions through guesswork and trial-and-error in the heuristic spirals of gameplay and narrative.
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How and why do video games tell stories? Through the battlefield of ludology and narratology in video game studies, this master’s thesis finds that narration, as a process, is intrinsic to video game playing, independently of the « cut-scenes » often favored in interactive storytelling. A novel perspective on a
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