The event of a main death while sad would incite narrative motivations that drove characters that were already established independently.
He says this despite encountering "appalling" dialogue, despite hearing actors give line readings of "autistic miscalculation," despite despairing over the sense that gamers and game designers have embraced "an unnecessary hostility between the greatness of a game and the sophistication of things such as narrative, dialogue, dramatic motivation and characterization".
In that book he declared that games were "the most consistently pleasurable pursuit in my life," and yet he also attacked the industry for "an unnecessary hostility between the greatness of a game and the sophistication of things such as narrative, dialogue, dramatic motivation and characterization".
We hypothesize that a narrative effect for motivation and learning may be difficult to uncover in a lab experiment where participants are primarily motivated by course credit.
For the time being, the video and his interview with The Guardian are what define Mr. Snowden, but in the coming days, weeks and months, we will learn far more about his personal and professional life, and perhaps a more complicated narrative about his motivations will emerge.
A scientific journal publishes articles, which are narratives explaining the motivation for a specific study, the methods being applied, the observations made, and the conclusions drawn.
That gives his work a distinctive edge but it also leads to some weird places that are not always reconcilable with old-fashioned ideas such as narrative cohesion and character motivation.
Romer and Romer (2010) use a vast narrative record describing the motivation of tax changes from which the authors identify reforms that are not directly related with other developments affecting output.
The Los Angeles Times critic Linda Gross said the script lacked "credibility, psychological motivation and narrative cohesiveness", although she praised Terry Bowen's cinematography, saying it "effectively captures the ambience of desert small-town life".
