{"id":188,"date":"2010-08-25T09:17:56","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T09:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/?p=188"},"modified":"2010-08-25T09:17:56","modified_gmt":"2010-08-25T09:17:56","slug":"narrative-in-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/narrative-in-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Narrative in games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just used up the rest of my holiday allowance this year to take a week off to concentrate on writing my Great Novel (and getting on top of the washing). I&#8217;ve spent a lot of time reading about the composition of narrative (not procrastinating, you understand) and, in particular, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Hero_with_a_Thousand_Faces\" target=\"_blank\">Hero&#8217;s Journey<\/a>, which provides an archetypal framework for storytelling.<\/p>\n<p>I was interested to find this article on the use of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/feature\/3118\/using_the_heros_journey_in_games.php\" target=\"_blank\">the Hero&#8217;s Journey in games<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just used up the rest of my holiday allowance this year to take a week off to concentrate on writing my Great Novel (and getting on top of the washing). I&#8217;ve spent a lot of time reading about the&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/narrative-in-games\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,3],"tags":[160,121],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources","category-thoughts","tag-heros-journey","tag-narrative"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p71sY0-32","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}