Narrative analysis and videogame: a song of ice and fire and dragon age

• Autor(a) principal: César Allori Quinino
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFMG
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/47326
• topic: Dragon Age; Song of Ice and Fire; Videogames; Comparative literature; Narrative; Narratology; Interactive Narratology; Dragon Age (Jogo); Song of Ice and Fire (Jogo); Jogos eletrônicos – Literatura; Literatura comparada

With the advancement of technology, videogames have grown to become one of the largest entertainment industries in the world. Still, their particularities as both an emerging artform and a unique medium for storytelling are quite commonly misunderstood. In this Master’s thesis, I contrast the storytelling and narrative elements of a non-interactive medium, in this case a series of books, with that of an interactive one, namely videogames. By analysing the strategies and aspects used in A Song of Ice and Fire and Dragon Age, as well as other scholarly works in the paradigm for game studies, I exemplify the similarities and differences between both forms of storytelling, while bringing attention to the element of interactivity and how it affects the narratives of the selected games. While games have yet to realize their potential fully in incorporating interactivity as a form of shaping narrative and plot, be it because of monetary or time issues, it is clear that videogames have the capability to one day achieve that so-called “perfect” implementation.