1. Telling story in game
-Game is an interactive narrative
Narratives are an influential part of our life and culture. Stories always have some
special sense of meaning to the world. It is not only literature that tells stories
but also history can be seen as a kind of story telling as well. Narrative can be
showed as many types, such as films, drama, comic strips and even paintings.
Thus it seems reasonable to assume that games tell story and which make
narrative in an interactive way. The issue of narratively in games has, in fact,
gained a certain prominence attention from the public. From studies of hypertext
in the 1980s and 1990s gave opinions about the possibilities of "interactive
storytelling" as a new form of narrative in digital media and the study also
include games, the so-called text adventures (Bolter, 1991; Landow, 1992,1994).
Narratives in games
The popular computer games are just forty-two years old (Neitzel, B, 2005).
Game is made for giving players fun in an interactive way by computers or other
machines. We use narratives to make sense of our lives, to process information,
so most games have a story introduction written on the package, placing the
game in a large story or creating an ideal story that the player has to realize.
In my view narrative in games can be divided into two part, have the sense of
world outlook or non-world outlook. Space Invaders (Taito, 1977) is a game need
we use the world outlook. From the science fiction we clearly know that these
aliens are evil and should be chased away. In that game we are presented with an
ideal story that we have to using skills to reach the goal about destroy aliens and
make the world peaceful.
As a reason of game has narrative in it, the translations of narrative from game
become obviously common. In other words, game is a narrative medium, stories
from other media can be retelling in games and games can be retelling in other
media. Star Wars and Mortal Kombat are examples for prove it（Juul, J 1995）.
The arcade game Star Wars (Atari, 1983) is about from movie to game, it is based
on the George Lucas movie of the same name (1977). The game used the
background story from the movie and it has some corresponds to a scene in the
movie. In the game, if you complete the mission, the Death Star explodes which
same like the movie. However, there also some different, like most characters
from the movie are missing and some events that are same in the movie have
become simulations where the player can either win or fail.
Then from game to story, Mortal Kombat (Mid way Games,1993) can be an
example which become a movie in 1995 by New Line cinema. It is a fighting game
and has a dynamic system that allows many different people to interact with
many different outcomes. But the Mortal Kombat movie is not a dynamic system,

2. but a story with a specific set of characters and also has a specific outcomes. It
seems like the game characters become more detailed movie characters and the
open simulation is converted into fixed events. From both sides on translate
between game and movie, it can be clearly seen that game has narrative that can
let players both into and control it, which obviously interactive narrative.
Users with interactive narrative
For interactive with games, the purpose is make sure that player must have had
an enjoyable gameplay experience when working towards the story inside (Ince,
S 2006). Basically, it always about linear storytelling that player works to reach a
goal for revealing the next piece of the story. The goal has to mimic the player’s
situations that mean it has to be one that you would want to work for. It makes
narrative be a very useful carrier for doing this. God of War made in 1995 that is
a video game based on the Greek mythology. Then God of War 2 and 3 came out
in 2007 and 2010, the three games become a continue story. From this game,
players act a man named Kratos who overcome difficulties to become god of war
and then revenge in Olympus. This is a first-person narrative that gives players a
strong feeling into the story while playing the game.
Conclusion
Game is a brilliant carrier for interactive narrative. Games always make sense by
adding a story to them which useful for player get into the game itself.
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