Finding Meaning through Video Games

Authors

Christopher T. Althoff, Brigham Young UniversityFollow

Keywords

Ludology, Narratology, Film Theory, Video games, finding meaning, interactive story telling, audio-visual design, play, player agency, simulation

Abstract

The way video games combine elements from novels and films and then adds the element of interactivity makes them a unique and complicated medium that is difficult to completely understand. Video games create meaning by using and combining the visual and audio elements of Film Theory, the storytelling elements of Narratology, and the interactive elements of Ludology.

BYU ScholarsArchive Citation

Althoff, Christopher T., "Finding Meaning through Video Games" (2018). Student Works. 223.
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/studentpub/223

Document Type

Class Project or Paper

Publication Date

2018-01-20

Language

English

College

Humanities

Department

English

University Standing at Time of Publication

Senior

Course

English 495

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