Story Approaches

 Assignment 1 Story Development

Story telling techniques 

Story telling techniques are used from painting and cave paintings they're dated back to thousands of years which uses drawings to tell a story concept if the story is small and the gameplay promising the game will be dead without a good story and gameplay.

Some  games tell the story through flashbacks because it shows how they got there some games you play through the flashback to understand whats going on games like prototype 1 and the legend of Zelda breath of the wild.

In Greek they shouted in the streets and in call of duty world war 2 you had the war story from world war 2
Cave painting

Cave painting is art made from years and years ago which then later inspired story developers to make games and art.
Game genre 
RPG games role playing games is you have a character who can equip armour sets sometimes go into dungeons to kill bosses sometimes you can take bosses down with other players examples of this Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 and Skyrim.

First person shooters are you see through the eyes of the player with guns games like this are war games like call of duty and the first person game Far Cry.

Approaches 

Approaches elements:The story location so where the story begin in a war zone or apostolic for example in the legend of Zelda breath of the wild Link wakes up in a shine after loosing his memories Link goes to each location either hot or cold conditions as it effects him it kills him, he encounters enemies his action where he can kill them and dodge and climb cliffs at the end he beats Calamity Ganon and saves Zelda another example is Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2.

The Time patroller named ace has no emotions shown in game but other charcters such as Trunks he shows alot of emotion when Ace goes back in time to the time where his mentor died in the attack against the androids.

Ace is your custom character as he has the main roles but you can change the gender of the character so that a female will be the main role you choose the name and race.

in Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 there is hope to the game when trunks and your hero go to save your original time patroller from the first game.

The location in "Legend of Zelda breath of the wild doesn't have a timeline with its fields of Hyruler with its green grass and open world another open world"(6) example that is the same open world is Horizon Zero  Dawn(7).

Representation in characters

Representation in characters in videogames they have games in the early 90s they would have in games where in games like Super Mario Bros Mario saves princess peach from Bowser other examples is the emotion of charcters if somethings happen in games like the last of us.

Xenoverse 2 is based on vengeance because it follows the manga and TV series.

Happiness  is used within dragon ball Xenoverse 2 when for example its when trunks and the Supreme Kai of time live there happy lives once they have saved the world even throughout the events the character shows no emotion but happiness however if things look dark she becomes more serious.

Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 may not so much have a sense of fear theirs other games that would have a lot more fear within the games one example that has fear in a game is Outlast theirs one part in the game where an NPC follows you while some may think it isn't scary others may think its very creepy.


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Anger is used in games is anger towards something or someone for example in Dragon Ball Xenvoverse 1 the main villain takes the egg from the Supreme kai of time and she has anger towards him because of the consequences that will happen if he takes it.

Perseverance is something that a character in game must complete a difficult task so they can overcome it for example space invaders the player needs to have patience in it because the pattern of how the aliens shoot changes.


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Heroism is used in games to make the player determine to reach the goal this is used in games such as Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 when you confront the final boss and it also happens when you fight the final boss in Crash Bandicoot games will always do this to show heroism because it shows the players determination to finish the game.



Valour is used in gaming in games such as Darksouls and Bloodborne as an example because you have tough enemies to beat to progress through the game.


Hope means a feel of expectation its used in games such as Mario and Zelda in Mario you save princess peach and in the legend of Zelda link rescues Zelda.


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Competitiveness is used in gaming which it makes each player or a team of people trying to dominate to win a few examples of games that have these in there games is Call of Duty,Overwatch and Hearthstone.



Interactive story 

Interactive story means in games they have cinematic cutscenes it can also mean you interact with other characters within a cutscene which means you can change what happens in the cutscene for example games like Telltale games make games from other popular games series like "Batman, Minecraft and Borderlands"(3) where your given a story and in the cutscenes your given a set of choices and which ever choice you choose affects the story other games that have this is in Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 where there are two choices in the story you either choose to fix the timeline where trunks screwed up or you choose to leave it, throughout the game you can change your characters clothes and you can choose to change your characters appearance.

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Writing strategies 

Writing strategies is a key skill to have in games because games with careful planning if the concept works first they free write it which means you right down whatever comes to your head you don't think about what to write next, they also had to re write and make drafts and storyboards so the concept art makes sense so you have an idea about what your writing an example of this is in Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 they had to change a few bits and re arrange some of the story because of the movie characters in the game.

References 

http://videogamechoochoo.com/super-mario-odyssey-review/(1)

http://uk.businessinsider.com/zelda-breath-of-the-wild-nintendo-documentary-video-2017-3(2)

https://telltale.com/(3)

http://joshuaschummer.com/?p=661(4)

http://thatsgaming.nl/dragonball-xenoverse-2-review/(5)