Ted Talks and Journals
Everything is narrative / Everything can be presented as narratives according to this author
Jesper Juul
Invented in 1974 by American game designers Ernest Gary Gygax and David Arneson, this game recently experienced a renaissance when it became central to a popular TV series.
Dungeons and Dragons
This performer's boyfriend needed to 'shake it off' after watching his team get thumped 22-40.
Travis Kelce
It is what you do. It's not the interface, not the graphics, and it is not the story. It's the part of the game that absolutely requires the player's participation.
Gameplay
Referring to the collective of individuals bonded by a particular game or type of game, generally through online communication or play.
Gaming Community
Games and stories actually ___ translate to each other in the way that novels and movies do.
Do not
The backbone of this game is about ensuring social stratification, and it does so by making the poor pay the rich.
Tycoon/Dai Fugo
Costing over 8 million a spot, these have long been a cultural lodestone for the Super Bowl
Commercials
This field of study argues that games are expressive due to their underlying narrative structures, and thus games can be interpreted like literary texts.
Narratology
Form
David Cage attempted to redefine how we tell stories with this game.
Detroit: Become Human
George Washington is reputed to have played it with Cornwallis and the Comte de Rochambeau to decide who would be the last to leave Cornwallis's tent after the signing of the British surrender at Yorktown in 1781.
Rock Paper Scissors
This artist is the only Pulitzer Prize winner to ever perform at a Super Bowl.
Kendrick Lamar
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Your team gets points!
by using these relatable examples of characters, games seek to teach us how to react to these types when we meet them.
Archetypes
In the classical argument for the existence of narratives is the fact that a story can be shifted from one medium to another by using this mechanism or strategy
translated/translation
Made in Scandinavia in the late 12th century, this game whose pieces are strongly influenced by Norse culture, remains extremely popular to this day.
Chess
Not to be upstaged by the game itself, President Trump tweeted this one demand be met in order to make the game better.
Change the Kickoff format.
This is more than just “context of in-game actions.” It is how the players absorb information, why they care about their choices, and creates an emotional connection between play and thought.
Narrative
Providing a system of education (explaining/learning through story) is one of the things games seek to accomplish through this 'pillar'
Function
In this type of writing you have to manage massive tree structures, where each branch is a new variation of the story.
Interactive Writing or Storyforming
Possibly the oldest board game it has 3,361 possible positions and 250 possible moves each turn.
Go
This famous athlete C-Walked her way into trouble during her pro career, and did it to applause during the Super Bowl Halftime Show.
Serena Williams
Being able to cause cyberpsychosis in people in Cyberpunk2077, even though there's entire quest line about it being a mystery what causes cyberpsychosis is an example of this gaming concept.
Ludonarrative Dissonance
The ability of a game to Institutionalize cultural norms, Legitimize Authority, and Unify the community is called this.
Potential