Dramatic Elements
To start my critical study of dramatic elements of games i must first understand what the words dramatic elements mean and relate to. This will give me a principle outline of what i am going to be studying in depth and allows me to fully understand what i am trying to achieve.
Dramatic: Characterized by or expression of the action or emotion associated with drama.
Arresting or a forceful in appearance or effect.
This word is a prose to drama in which we get a succession of events played in front of us that creates a emotion effect on the viewer.
Elements: A base component in any structure of a object.
Elements are the objects with in areas of life or objects that are key to the object you are currently viewing. They are a physical part, which you can pull away and look more closely to, but each element only works when all are combine.
These two words together as 'Dramatic elements' give us the meaning of objects that a viewer can engage emotionally. Taking this further to what i am studying, dramatic elements are the core components of a game that create the emotional and experience to the player which can allow both a outcome determined by the players investment to the game and the interest created.
These elements that gives context and integrates formal elements into a meaningful experience.
These words have a great deal of meaning behind them when referring them to game design. Only by briefly looking what the words themselves mean I have learnt that it’s the dramatic elements that give formal elements a true meaning experience in which a outcome or reward is given. What a rules and elements of games without any meaning or no reason to play. This factor together with the formal elements creates the need to play and the need to win.
I don’t think I have played a game without a strive to win. This strive is the combination of these two parts.
What dramatic elements consist of and what I need to do in order to understand dramatic elements:
Challenge
Play
Premise
Character
Narrative
Narratology vs Ludology
Imbedded narrative and emergent narrative
These areas will be my areas of study and research, i am confident that each area will have lots of new information and data that i will expore and will a curtial part of understanding dramatic elements in games.
