Week III - Source Analysis III

Dragon Age: Origins [Bioware, 2010]'s Alistair and Morrigan.

During Week 3 I borrowed C. Crawford's 'Chris Crawford On Interactive Storytelling' from the University library. I completed reading the book over the course of the week, and the source analysis report I wrote as a result can be found here.

"C. Crawford’s 'Chris Crawford On Interactive Storytelling’ is an intriguing book. On the one hand, it provides deep and detailed information regarding any way that plot and characters can be used in videogames, but on the other hand, is presented in such a confrontational and condescending way it’s hard to take the man seriously. This stems from the fact that while Crawford practically invented his field, other writers were published dealing with it prior to him, and there seems a kind of resentment present. Struggling through this, however, I found the book to be an excellent source for our project, as it presents further development in the ‘Personality Modelling’ I’ve been working on. While the entire book is useful from a narrative perspective, we are only concerned with Chapter 11, which deals with character-driven storytelling and believable NPCs."