The Research On The Narrative Design About Video Games

Video games has got great attractiveness in visual and auditory effects through experiences for many years,moreover,it became much richer in temporal elements,space elements and complicated artistic forms of expression.Players require a higher quality of video games,which puts forward higher demand for video games.More and more video games works on standout animation and narrative,resulting in a view that the video game is a new form of art.This form of art provides players different levels of artistic experiences while spread feelings to them.After movies,novels and dramas,video games turned into a new form of narrative,especially RPG games have an obvious narrative features than other games.Therefore,it is necessary to analyze the complicated narrative form of video games from the perspective of narratology.In this paper,the author tries to explore how the narrative of video games influences players through the analysis of the video games from the perspective of narratology.General situation and research background of object of study are introduced in Chapter One;the concept of video games and the cases to be analyzed are introduced in Chapter Two;the unique narrative features of video games are analyzed in Chapter Three;the narrative mode of the game content which is cited as cases are analyzed in Chapter Four,including the content,narrative subject,lens language,etc.;the approach to make video game narrative artistic is investigated through narrative structure in Chapter Five;the relationship between video games and players is discussed in Chapter Six.Through the analysis of the cases and the interpretation of the narrative theory,it is found that the artistic features of the video game narrative.The ultimate service object of the video games are players,so the critical question is how video games can better serve players.It provides a game designer with certain references about the way to set up the game content around players and to tell stories in games better.