The Future, the Crisis, and the Future of Replay Story

• Authors: Eleonora T. Imbierowicz
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The article explores the notion of replay story by Janet Murray. Replay story – a game telling the story through choices and allowing the player to access all of their outcomes – was supposed to be a step in the process of games becoming the most important narrative medium of a new era. Soon after that, the reasonable critique emerged: not every story can, and should, be told though a replay story. Some can even be highly controversial if told in such form. However, new ways of storytelling through replay emerged in the last years: New Game +, multiple routes that influence one another, games that are conscious of previous playthroughs. Three years ago, Ian Bogost stated that the possibilities of development of narrative games are already played-out; and yet, there still is a chance that replay story is once again a keystone in the evolution of games.

Keywords

EN

video games; game studies; replay story; replayability; replay value; tellability; digital games

• Publisher: Akademia Górniczo-Hutnicza im. Stanisława Staszica w Krakowie
• Journal: Studia Humanistyczne AGH
• Year: 2021
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 85-95

Dates

published

2021-03-31

received

2020-10-25

revised

2020-12-16

accepted

2020-12-16

Contributors

author

Eleonora T. Imbierowicz

• Faculty of Philology, University of Wrocław, Polska

Identifiers

DOI

doi.org/10.7494/human.2021.20.2.85