This book provides an introduction and overview of the rapidly evolving topic of game narratives, presenting the new perspectives employed by researchers and the industry, highlighting the recent empirical findings that illustrate the nature of it. The first section deals with narrative design and theory, the second section includes social and cultural studies on game narrative, the third section focuses on new technologies and approaches for the topic, the fourth section presents practices and case studies, and the final section provides industry cases from professionals.

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Barbaros Bostan is a Professor in the Digital Game Design department at the Bahcesehir University/Turkey. He has a Ph.D. in Information Systems (2007) and he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at IDM Institute, Games Lab of the National University of Singapore between 2008 and 2010. His research areas include computer games, presence, interactivity, gamer psychology, player motivations and player profiling. Bostan has teaching experience in the areas of game history and analysis, storytelling in games, player psychology, research methods and interactive narrative. He was the editor of "Gamer Psychology and Behavior" and "Game User Experience and Player-Centered Design" books published by Springer. He was also one of the section editors of "Encyclopedia of Computer Graphics and Games" published by Springer

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SECTION 1: NARRATIVE DESIGN and THEORY Chapter 1: Six Degrees of Videogame Narrative Author(s): Sercan engün, Illinois State University

Chapter 2: Systemic NPC-side Branching in Linear AAA Video Game Stories

Author(s): Leanne C. Taylor-Giles, Drop Bear Bytes

Chapter 3: Breaking the Fourth Wall in Video Games: A New Terminology and Methodology

Author(s): Öznur Özdal, Nitrogen Game Studio

Güven Çatak, Bahçeehir University

Chapter 4: Gamifying Kindness: Toward a Praxis of the Ephemeral

Author(s): Leanne C. Taylor-Giles, Queensland University of Technology

Jane Turner, Queensland University of Technology

Demi Schänzel, Auckland University of Technology

Chapter 5: The Digital Lineage of Narrative: Analyzing Interactive Fiction to Further

Understand Game Narrative

Author(s): Kirsty Michelle McGill, University of Bedfordshire

Chapter 6: The Case for Naive and Low Fidelity Narrative Generation

Author(s): Henrik Warpefelt, Kennesaw State University

SECTION 2: SOCIAL and CULTURAL STUDIES

Chapter 7: Azeroth Has a Workplace Gender Inequality Problem: Gendered Professions

Bias in Virtual Worlds

Author(s): Jennifer Price, Illinois State University

Lyndsie Schlink, Illinois State University

Kristin Walker, Illinois State University

Sercan Sengun, Illinois State University

Chapter 8: Narrative Design in Turkish Video Games: History and Comparison

Author(s): Esin Selin Guregen, stinye University

Ertugrul Sungu, Bahçeehir University

Chapter 9: The Games on Exhibition: Videogames as Contemporary Art

Author(s): Tolga Hepdinçler, Bahçeehir University

Chapter 10: Ethics of Interactive Storytelling

Author(s): Sami Hyrynsalmi, LUT University

Kai K. Kimppa, University of Turku

Jouni Smed, University of Turku

Chapter 11: The World Building in the Superhero Genre through Movies and Video

Games: The Interplay Between Marvel's Avengers and Marvel Cinematic Universe

Author(s): Hasan Kemal Suher, Bahçeehir University

Tuna Tetik, Bahçeehir University

SECTION 3: NEW TECHNOLOGIES and APPROACHES

Chapter 12: Academical: A Choice-Based Interactive Storytelling Game for Enhancing

Moral Reasoning, Knowledge, and Attitudes in Responsible Conduct of Research

Author(s): Edward F. Melcer, University of California, Santa Cruz

Katelyn M. Grasse, University of California, Santa Cruz

James Ryan, Carleton College

Nick Junius, University of California, Santa Cruz

Max Kreminski, University of California, Santa Cruz

Noah Wardrip-Fruin, University of California, Santa Cruz

Chapter 13: The Marriage of Quantum Computing and Interactive Storytelling

Author(s): Natasha Skult, University of Turku

Jouni Smed, University of Turku

Chapter 14: A Shared Vocabulary for Interactive Digital Narrative (IDN) - an

Encyclopedia Project

Author(s): Hartmut Koenitz, University of Amsterdam

Mirjam Palosaari Eladhari, Stockholm University

Sandy Louchart, Glasgow School of Art Frank Nack, University of Amsterdam

Christian Roth, HKU University of the Arts Utrecht

Elisa Mekler, Aalto University, Finland

Péter Kristóf Makai, University of Duisburg-Essen

Chapter 15: Narrative as a Game User Experience Dimension: An Experimental Study Author(s): Barbaros Bostan, Bahçeehir University

Seray Senyer, Bahçeehir University

SECTION 4: PRACTICES and CASE STUDIES Chapter 16: An Analysis of the Use of Religious Elements in Assassin's Creed Origins&...