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Story beats in videogames as value-driven choice-based unit operations

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Mochocki M., Koskimaa R.

Images. The International Journal of European Film, Performing Arts and Audiovisual Communication

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2021

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vol. 29

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issue 38

5-31

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We present a framework of story beats, defined as microunits of dramatic action, as a tool for the ludonarrative analysis of videogames. First, we explain the Goal - Action - Reaction - Outcome model of the story beat. Then, we present six types of story beats, Action, Interaction, Inaction, Mental, Emotion, and Sensory, providing videogame examples for each category. In the second half of the paper, we contextualise this framework in the classic game studies theory of videogame narrative and player action: unit operations, gamic action, anatomy of choice, and game design patterns, wrapping it up in the most recent trends in cognitive narratology. Ultimately, we present the story beat as a ludonarrative unit, working simultaneously as a ‘unit operation’ in the study of games as systems, and as a microunit of character action in narrative analysis. The conclusion outlines prospective directions for using story beats in formal, experiential, and cultural game research.

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Regionalistická historiografie českého rocku a její nové přírůstky:

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Opekar A.

Hudební věda (Musicology)

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2020

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vol. 57

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issue 2

210-230

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In cases of findings of previously unreleased recordings, these are often enclosed with the newly published books. While some of these books are strictly personal memoirs, others have striven to complement the author´s individual reminiscences with information obtained in communication with other persons involved, and in more than a few cases the authors even engaged in a systematic and detailed sourceoriented research in private collections and institutional archives. The category of eye-witness authors has been readily expanded by a younger generation of writers, notably university students, who tend to tackle the subject from a broader perspective and without emotional burden. The conclusion offers a general overview of the characteristic features of this literary genre and its assessment as a useful compendium of information, personal commentaries, analyses and generalizations which serves as an invaluable source material for the comprehensive study of the phenomenon of Czech rock music.

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V jiných publikacích převládají rozhovory s jednotlivci. Pravidlem je důraz na obrazovou dokumentaci. V posledních letech jsou stále častěji souběžně s knížkou připravovány i výstavy. Byly-li nalezeny dříve nevydané dokumentární zvukové záznamy, vycházejí jako příloha knížky. V některých případech šlo o subjektivní memoáry, v jiných o poctivou snahu doplňovat vlastní vzpomínky informacemi z rozhovorů s dalšími aktéry dění a v řadě případů dokonce proběhl soustavný a důkladný pramenný výzkum v soukromých sbírkách a institucionálních archivech. K autorům – pamětníkům brzy přistupují i mladší zájemci, včetně studentů univerzit, kteří k látce přistupují v širších kontextech a bez emočních zátěží. Závěr přináší zobecnění charakteristických rysů této literatury a hodnotí ji jako užitečný komplex informací, osobních komentářů, analýz a zobecnění, který vytváří nezastupitelné podklady pro souborné zpracování fenoménu české rockové hudby.

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The Rising of the Cosmopolitan Personalities

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Crimi D.

Academicus. International Scientific Journal

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2014

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issue 10

75-92

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This short essay wants to look at beat literature as a medium that has re-introduced in popular feelings the possibility to change the world, transforming its social rules by using new technologies as instruments for emancipation. Stating this, the essay links the beat movement to hipster’s hopes of the beginning of the XX century, with the need to reflect on the meaning of two WW as barriers to people’s emancipation. From the non-academic side of the perspective, the essay indicates some special sources, trying to demonstrate how beat literature has shaped new meanings to words like “occult”, “magic”, linking them with other words like “awareness” and “emancipation”. Doing this, a tribute is given to the historical role played by the magazine “International Times” as living witness of the years when beat literature was germinating into the generational protest. The conclusions are oriented towards the meaning in the present for a beat attitude to (social) life, with the new awareness of the way indicated by Allen Ginzberg about the unuseful dimension of drugs as instruments to get the vision, and the need to substitute them with natural tools to be able to extract them from unconscious through yoga and meditation systems. This may help to create a new kind of people, involved in a cosmopolitan interpretation of life, able to interconnect by the new information and communication technologies, ready to create a new social intellect. Of course, we do not pretend to present this work of network as a strong link, rather, it seems to be a weak tie. Nevertheless, this weak tie in sociology is a concept used to indicate a relationship that is not as strong as quotidian family or professional relationships. The strength of weak ties theory affirms that weak ties provide access to new audiences where you could find opportunities or contrary opinions that would make ideas stronger, looking at how a person’s network can contribute to their success. Ideas are like germs and they don’t diffuse through populations of people at random, instead, they make their way through networks – that is the kind of relationships we may have with people, creating connections with others. The changes in communication system (Internet, on the immaterial side, the mobility system on the physical side) are creating new opportunities to create network both on the immaterial and on the physical side. Conference driven by intellectual affinities and wishes to know better each others culture seems to generate the conditions of a new kind of people, creating cosmopolitan attitude as something that can be shared by an increasing number of people.

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Story beats in videogames as value-driven choice-based unit operations

Regionalistická historiografie českého rocku a její nové přírůstky:

The Rising of the Cosmopolitan Personalities