After all the discussion brought up by Gabe’s post about narrative yesterday, I started thinking about more and more.  Since it’s been such a prominent topic during class I figured I would post some more thoughts and questions about it and see what you all think.

First off, I think it’s important to remember, as Gabe pointed out, that video games were originally rooted in narrative. I don’t want to repeat all of Gabe’s examples, but I think it’s an important starting point. If games don’t have narrative now, where did they lose it?

Also, I was wondering what you all thought of games as creative space. This relates to games like minecraft and maybe even tetris. Even there is no express narrative, it could be the intent for us to create our own narrative. We already did this in class with tetris, and then we saw an example of someone else who put a very specific narrative to it (the creepy Brazilian version).

Finally, I was also wondering if you thought that maybe intelligence means that there is always some form of narrative in what we do.