The following is an essay originally written and submitted for grading in November of 2015. Nothing has been changed. As a narrative art form, video games have many options at their disposal that other narrative art forms do not. From direct control of the characters, to unparalleled hypertext, video games can create narratives unlike any other. To this end, no one in video games has proven thi...
The following is an essay originally written and submitted for grading in November of 2015. Nothing has been changed. Video games rarely deviate from traditional modes of storytelling. Contemporary video games tend to follow a cutscene-gameplay-cutscene method to deliver their stories, with the occasional, yet far less important, story being added during gameplay segments. These narrative devic...
The following is an essay originally written and submitted for grading in September of 2012. Nothing has been changed. Technology has advanced exponentially since Sigmund Freud’s last idea was written, and now Freudian concepts are being applied to much more than psychology. Literature has become a forefront for the use of Freud’s psychoanalysis, and with the evolution of technology Freud’s ide...