Fragmented Narrative

Ludic Narrational Structure cultural · postmodern

The narration is presented not in chronological or causal order but as fragments that the player must assemble into a whole. The reconstruction is the ludic experience.

Design question – What is the fragment – and what arises when players assemble the fragments?

Reference example – Micro Macro: Crime City: the scenes of a case lie scattered across a huge city map, and you piece them together into the crime. Gone Home: notes, letters and tapes in the empty house gradually add up to the sister’s story.

Compatible with

• Griot (DU-10) – Accumulating layers of knowledge.
• Eruption (DU-04) – A slow puzzle, then a sudden whole picture.