Vol. 7, No 1: 27–32.

Cultural studies and socio-cultural projects

 2022

Scientific article

UDK 141.132
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Mariia Batishcheva
bachelor, Peter the Great St.Saint-Petersburg Polytechnic university
(Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation),
masha.batisheva@mail.ru

Analysis of player choice in computer games with a nonlinear plot

Scientific adviser:
Darya S. Byleva
Reviewer:
Elena O. Burachevskaya
Paper submitted on: 12/16/2021;
Accepted on: 03/06/2022;
Published online on: 04/05/2022.
 Abstract. The article analyzes how much and to what extent a player can influence the gameplay, whether the freedom of choice is real or imaginary. Non-linearity in games represents a new stage in their development. As a result of the study, it was revealed that most of the games are presented in the adventure genre, during the passage of the psychological portrait of the hero changes, the character has the freedom to choose actions. Thus, in video games with a non-linear plot, there is a wide range of variability determined by the actions of the player. The ability to transform the character's character and plot, provides the player with a new level of immersion in the game environment.
Keywords: main character, game world, video game, gamer, nonlinearity

For citation: Batishcheva, M. Analysis of player choice in computer games with a nonlinear plot. StudArctic forum. 2022, 7 (1): 27–32.

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