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A structural study of the video game narrative is overdue. Narration in games defies the conventional understanding of how stories are communicated because the story is told both by the player and the game system. In this introduction, we will present groundwork concepts such as the nature of play as an act of narration and the question of criticism.
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© 2015 Tamer Thabet
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Thabet, T. (2015). Introduction. In: Video Game Narrative and Criticism: Playing the Story. Palgrave Pivot, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137525543_1
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