The Shapes of Stories in Games and Comics
UC Santa Barbara (Video)
English - January 15, 2024 21:00 - 28 minutes - 286 MB Video - ★★★ - 1 ratingEducation Arts Books entrepreneurship interview business health politics news leadership entrepreneur finance culture Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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What are the shapes of stories? This is a longstanding question in narrative arts, from the plot arcs of novels and rhyme schemes of poems to the shot sequences of films. This program discusses two narrative media forms: interactive branching stories (as in games, gamebooks, and hypertext fiction) represented as networks, and graphic narratives (as in comics, manga and webtoons) with individual pages represented as grid compositions. Through description, encoding, and data visualization, we will explore the shapes of stories in comics and games. Series: "GRIT Talks" [Humanities] [Show ID: 39335]