Playing the story: Computer games as a narrative genre 1

Human IT

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 7-53

  Carlquist, Jonas ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRANCHING ELEMENTS; COMPUTER GAMES; GAMING INDUSTRY; NARRATIVE GENRE;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 3042693125     PISSN: 14021501     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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