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My previous post<\/a> on the Ludology vs Narratology debate is one of my most visited, and I note that that the term frequently appears in searches that bring people to this site. So, in the spirit of “give the people what they want”, let me offer up this morsel.<\/p>\n

I’ve been reading Espen Aarseth’s<\/a> paper, A Narrative Theory of Games<\/em><\/a>, and he both offers insight into the debate (as, it seems, a pretty early participant), and, more importantly, does a reasonable job of debunking the whole thing. Along the way, he demonstrates\u00a0a masterclass in academic rhetoric, but you can’t help but feel its personal too.<\/p>\n

In\u00a0reality this is not one, but two debates conflated: one is the design-oriented discussion of the potential and failings of game-based\u00a0narratives, and another is the discussion of whether games can be\u00a0said to be stories.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Aarseth points the finger at Henry Jenkins’ Game Design as Narrative Architecture<\/em><\/a>, for setting up the two sides of Ludologists and Narratologists. (Though in that paper, Jenkins appears to point the finger back at Aarseth for coining the word ludology<\/em> in the first place.) Aarseth\u00a0argues that pitting one side against the other was\u00a0“unfortunate, because it obscured the fact that all the so-called \u201cludologists\u201d were trained\u00a0in narratology and used narratology in their studies of games.”<\/p>\n

Aarseth argues:<\/p>\n

The \u201cludologist\u201d position was not, as has been claimed,\u00a0\u201cto see the focus shift onto the mechanics of game play\u201d (Jenkins\u00a02001) but to emphasize the crucial importance of combining the \u00a0mechanical and the semiotic aspects and to caution against and\u00a0criticize the uncritical and unqualified application of terms such as\u00a0\u201cnarrative\u201d and \u201cstory\u201d to games. In other words, the ludologists\u2019\u00a0critique was a reaction to sloppy scholarship (in which key terms\u00a0are not defined), one-sided focus and poor theorizing, and not a
\nban against the application of narrative theory to games as such<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(This next bit, I love)<\/p>\n

That this challenge has been mistaken for a ban on the use of\u00a0narrative theory in game studies is nothing less than amazing, and\u00a0perhaps goes to show that humanist academics are often less\u00a0astute readers, scholars and interpreters than their training gives\u00a0them occasion to presume.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oh, but what’s this?<\/p>\n

Anyone\u00a0who echoes Jenkins\u2019 misleading nomenclature of \u201cludologists\u201d vs\u00a0\u201cnarratologists\u201d simply has not read the literature itself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s me well and truly told.<\/p>
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