Coursera: Online Games Class Notes
This post servers as a outline of the new concepts that I have learned in the class hosted on Coursera, " Online Games: Literature, New Media, and Narrative " taught by Jay Clayton. I will try to avoid giving answers to quiz's or questions in order to give other classmates a fair chance. Syllabus MMO Examples: Lord of the Rings Mist Star Wars Galaxies Dark age of Camelot World of War Craft Terms Multi-modal Analysis: Embedded narrative : Main content to the game, "A pre-generated narrative content that exists prior to a player's interaction with the game." pg 383 Salen and Zimmerman. Emergent Narrative: "arises from the set of rules governing interaction with the game system. Most moment-to-moment narrative play in a game emergent, as player choice leads to unpredictable narrative experience." - Salen and Zimmerman. Frame Narrative: Frame story (This term not defined in the class but was referenced.) Remediati