1. Games and Storytelling
About Me
Storytelling / Stories as Knowledge
Games & Storytelling
Examples & Discussion

2. About (the academic) Me
Literature
Philosophy
Games
Technology
Aesthetic Education
Media
Poetics

3. The (Most Recent) Everyday Me
I get some sleep.

4. Storytelling as Knowledge
"Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.“
– Hannah Arendt
Men in Dark Times, 1968
Storytelling is a form of AESTHETIC reasoning
In the context of our current technical culture… an imperative

5. Games: Some Ideas, Resources
Ergodics
Methexis
Story vs./& Simulation
“Actionism” (& the need for game criticism)
Media of “effortful attention”
Espen Aarseth’s Cybertext
Marie-Laure Ryan’s Narrative Across Media
Henry Jenkins’s “Game Design as Narrative Architecture”
Ian Bogost’s Unit Operations & Persuasive Games
Critical Gaming Project
First-Person Scholar
Gamestudies.org

7. Henry Jenkins: Narrative Architecture
Narrative and Experience of Designed Spaces
SPATIAL STORIES / ENVIRONMENTAL STORYTELLING

8. Evoke pre-existing narratives/narrative economies
1. Evocative Spaces
Evoke pre-existing narratives/narrative economies

9. Design for evental “micronarratives”
2. Enacting Stories
Design for evental “micronarratives”

10. Helps & cues for navigating narrational space
3. Embedded Narratives
Twin Lamps / Slavery Car Crash
TES3: Morrowind Dear Esther
Helps & cues for navigating narrational space

11. Provide resources for creating an experiential story
4. Emergent Narratives
SLEEP IS DEATH FAÇADE
Provide resources for creating an experiential story

12. Britta Neitzel: Story Worlds
Mythological action-oriented, change of states
Gnoseological discovery-oriented, unfolding of meaning
Ideological pattern-oriented, realization of situation/relations

13. Habit, Regimentation, Mechanization
Fritz Lang Paolo Pedercini
Metropolis Every Day the Same Dream
FILM VIDEOGAME