Spiel|Formen

Erzählen Spiele Geschichten?: Eine kurze Anmerkung zu Spielen und Erzählungen

Games occupy a distinct ontological space that cannot be fully subsumed by traditional narrative theory.

• Interactivity and traditional narrative are fundamentally incompatible because the act of player decision-making forces the 'story time' and 'discourse time' to collapse, whereas narratives require a distance between events and their presentation.
• While games like Valve's 1998 'Half-Life' use pre-scripted events and cutscenes to present a narrative, the actual player experience often deviates from this ideal sequence due to the nature of interactive gameplay.
• Games and narratives share structural similarities, such as quest structures, protagonists, and the movement from lack to resolution, as seen in Taito's 1977 'Space Invaders'.

Kartenspiele: Die Anfänge moderner Games

Card games served as a foundational catalyst for European modernity, acting as a primary driver for advancements in printing technology, paper manufacturing, and early capitalist production methods.