Creative Writing in the Narratives of Interactive Games—The Cases of Grand Theft Auto 5 and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Shawn Shao Dong

doi:10.1007/978-981-99-0931-5_7

Creative Writing in the Narratives of Interactive Games—The Cases of Grand Theft Auto 5 and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Shawn Shao Dong

Creative Arts

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Abstract

The gaming industry is a thriving form of new media in the entertainment industry. With its interactive and immersive mode of experience, it is popular amongst the new generation of young people. With the focus on two electronic games, viz. Grand Theft Auto 5 and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, this research studies how they complete their complicated multiple threads of literary narratives and multiple outcome narratives upon an interactive visual basis, and analyses the necessity and special features of creative writing in this new type of new media through a study of their narrative features and hidden interactive narrative clues.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Chinese Creative Writing Studies
Pages	85-92
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Electronic)	9789819909315
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-0931-5_7
Publication status	Published - 2023

Keywords

Electronic game
Grand Theft Auto 5
Immersion experience
Interactive narratives
The Witcher 3

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