Narrative ludology
intermediality in adventure games
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17851/1982-0739.18.3.96-108Keywords:
Narrative, intermediality, interactivity, videogamesAbstract
This paper proposes to discuss how adventure games, a subgenre of video games, have become a new medium that manages to combine elements from literature, comics, and movies in order to present highly complex interactive narratives of their own. The phenomenon of intermediality within this plurimedial medium is discussed using Irina Rajewsky’s definitions of medial transposition, media combination and intermedial reference.
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