Computer Arts

Environmental

Narrative

4th Year Honours Project

To investigate how Narrative Theory can be applied to a game

environment in order to tell a story

EMBEDDED BRANCHINGGENERATED EMERGENT

NARRATIVE

TECHNIQUES

RESEARCHING

NARRATIVE TECHNIQUES

RESEARCHING

BRANCHINGEMERGENT

Mise-en-

scene

RESEARCHING

LIGHTING PROPS SET DESIGNCOLOURCONTRAST DECOR FRAME CAMERAHIGH-KEY DENSITY LOW-KEY SHAPEFORM SIGNSSYMBOLS

DESIGN

TOPHER BRINKJoss Whedon’s

Dollhouse(2009)

GAME CONSOLESARCADE GAMES

ALGORITHMS CODEFORMULAS

PROGRAMMER

SCIENCE

TECHNOLOGYCOMPUTERS

“GENIUS”

BRAIN SCANS

PROTOTYPES

SCHEMATICS

DEDICATED TO

LONELYHIS WORK

LOW SELF-ESTEEM

HUMOROUS RUDEAMORAL

SARCASTIC PATRONIZINGCONDESCENDING

ARROGANT

SELF-ABSORBED

RICH

QUIRKY

GEEKY SWEATERVESTS

CHILDISH

VIDEO GAMESPOSTERS

MESSY

JUNK FOODCOLOURFULT-SHIRTS

MERCHANDISE

DESIGN

DESIGN

NEXT STEPS...

FOCUS GROUP

DECONSTRUCTDISCUSS

CHARACTER PROFILEREFLECT

TESTS

CASE STUDY/ interviews

TESTS

CASE STUDY/ interviews

ANOTHER TESTMODIFY QUESTIONSGET APPROVALTUTORIAL

DECONSTRUCT

RESEARCHFilm/ gameNARRATIVE

ludologyVS

narratology

Lead artist on Heavy rain

NEXT STEPS

RESEARCH PROPOSAL

FOCUS GROUP TESTING

RESEARCH ARTIST & DISNEY

IMPROVE LIGHTING

GAME ENGINE