Emergent Narrative:Collaborative Writing In Cybertext

Narrative works are experimenting in the new soil of digital media,and in the process,digital media are gradually finding their own narrative ways.Cybertext theory is an important clue to understanding artworks in digital media,and this paper focuses on such cybertext works that rely on users to produce unique narratives.While works in the cybertext perspective are seen as meaning-producing machines in which the user identity also participates in the construction of narratives through active reading and writing behaviors,emergent narratives,which appear in digital media such as video games,are player-based narratives that are inextricably linked to cybertext with the same emphasis on user interaction.It still has great potential for development.Nowadays,the online communities flourishing on the Internet,with collaborative writing as the core of group creation,provide a possible environment and opportunity for the realization of emergent narratives as a new narrative technique.Therefore,this paper takes the concept of emergent narrative in game studies as the entry point from the theory of cybertext,and selects two cases of cybertext that focus on collaborative writing,namely "MUD" game and "SCP Foundation",to analyze the collective expressions and their derivation space that emerge from the collaborative writing of players in the process of digital artworks.And at a time when social media is taking over our lives,this essay explores the relationship between micro-identity and macro-events in the narrative of collaborative writing in the life of digital media through artistic creation.