A series of physical and narrative simulations (safety training exercises) were developed with a focus on preventing amputation, spinal cord injury, hypersensitivity pneumonitis, and noise-induced hearing loss.
The real violence was thoroughly overwritten by electronic narrative: by simulation.
Or, to be more precise, there is more to this particular "narrative-based simulation" than water-gathering – the designers of Darfur is Dying were evidently sufficiently uneasy with the idea of referring to it as a "game" that the word appears nowhere on their website that I can see.
Whether that means more in terms of mechanics, simulation, narrative or any of the many delights that games can bring is an open question that will be different for every game, but it can no longer be ignored.
Now that the simulations have been described, it will be more meaningful to describe the cut scene narratives that preceded each simulation in condition 4, Embodied with Narrative.
The big question is whether people are going to want a narrative campaign in a simulation.
It should be a hybrid of postmodernist heteroglossia (multiple and high-low discursive registers, mixed genres, stories within stories) and pre-modernist narrative (conventional morality, the simulation of an oral story-telling tradition).
Tell them that research has shown that narrative-based video simulations will help you learn problem-solving skills.
Because well-designed games keep players coming back for more, we wanted to know if "stitching" together short science simulations with a narrative storyline would positively affect engagement and learning.
Here, we argue that doing this requires a synthetic approach blending observation, experimentation, simulation, conceptual models, and narratives.
