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I’d like to use the final part of this video game series to get excited about indie games and the important role they have to play in encouraging the next wave of immersive storytelling experiences. As this …

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Replay:

Before I go into some examples of the use of freedom, I’d like to quickly recap on a few key points:

• Immersion in games can be broken down into three subtypes–sensory, systemic, and fictional immersion.
• Fictional

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Playing the Player:

Before I start this post, I want to face up to the facts: as much as it might pain me to say it, most gamers don’t need a game to include complex, multi-layered plot, or a fully-realised …

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Introduction:

In my first post, I wrote that I considered a meaningful interaction with a video game as one in which the person that walks away from the game is not the same person that sat …

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Introduction:

A little while ago, Jess Au over at Spike (the Meanjin blog, not the men’s lifestyle channel) took the time to expound on the consideration of video games as a medium of storytelling. It …