Game Narrative

A cutscene in a video game is an example of . . .

• embedded story
• emergent story
• player engineered moment
• form

The main opposing character is the . . .

• protagonist
• antagonist

Which of the following is a component of a game's premise?

• time
• place
• objective
• all of these

Joseph Campbell's monomyth explains

• how narrative should work in games
• how to effectively divide a narrative up into its constituent parts
• the hero's journey from novice to master
• how all players come to identify with the character they are playing

In what part of Freytag's Pyramid is everything and everyone introduced?

• rising action
• complication
• resolution
• exposition

Aristotle developed a theory of narrative that stated that effective stories are divided into how many parts?

• six
• three
• four
• five

In  game, the situation is  the . . .

• personification of events created out of signs
• action patterns and repetitions
• changing states which are representative of the events that drive the story
• the premise

An internal, mental conflict in which the player holds 2 contrasting beliefs or ideas at the same time is . . .

• cognitive dissonance
• ludonarrative dissonance
• dissonance of identity
• cutscene dissonance

In ludology, the focus is on

• storytelling
• gameplay

Many game theorists believe this prevents game from being an effective storytelling medium.

• rules
• quantifiable outcome
• interactivity
• chance