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Study of Game Interactive Storytelling Design : Focusing on The Elder Scrolls 5 Skyrim  

Mo, Yu-Tao (Department of game Design and development, Sangmyung University)
Kim, Seok-Kyoo (Department of game Design and development, Sangmyung University)
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Journal of the Korean Society for Computer Game / v.31, no.4, 2018 , pp. 17-28 More about this Journal
Abstract
In recent years, Sandbox Games have become more and more popular in players, and The Elder Scrolls 5 Skyrim is the magnum opus of this type of game. However, the element of this game's attraction for players, which is why the game is fun to play is worth exploring in the territory of Game Design. In this paper, I will introduce the game The Elder Scrolls 5 Skyrim in detail, listing some of the game's storyline 、 Game Mechanics and analyze them. Researching the advantage and disadvantage viewed from the angle of Game Interactive Design. Finally by analyzing a large number of interactive storytelling cases in the game and the game experience brought to players, I get some universal principles in the game interactive storytelling design level. The research transforms the players' subjective intuition factor into a clear interactive storytelling design pattern, which aims to provide qualitative design criteria and framework for game interactive storytelling design. Then find a universal technique of Game Interactive Design, that is how to design a game interaction system for a sandbox game that will make the game attractive to players. And this may provide some guiding significance for the later Game Interactive Designing.
Keywords
Game Storytelling; Game Design; Interactive Storytelling; The Elder Scrolls 5 Skyrim;
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