Unraveling The Mortal Coil: Death And Stories Of Play

Keywords

Death; Emergence; Narrative death; Player stories; Screen death

Abstract

The current conversation on death in digital games focuses on the split between screen death and narrative death. At the same time, players telling stories about games often have nuanced conversations regarding the term. The result is a discussion around death in games that could be clearer. In this paper, I will untangle the various ways that players use this term 'death' in their own accounts of play. Using one hundred player stories drawn from the Skyrim user community as a test case, this discussion demonstrates ways that players explore death in their own reflective storytelling regarding play.

Publication Date

8-7-2018

Publication Title

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1145/3235765.3235800

Socpus ID

85055582681 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85055582681

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