Was the use of Micro narrative objects in your chosen game engaging? Explain your answer.
Some of the micro narrative objects were engaging in Gone Home,others detracted from the whole experience as they stopped the player's exploration for too long.
The objects that I found engaging were the objects that Katie (the player) had an opinion of or named differently.Objects such as the "Good ol Christmas duck" and "Gosh dad" had different names pop up suggesting what Katie first thought of and gave us indication on the relationship between Katie,that object,and who it belonged to as well as what she thought of said person.
The objects I didn't find engaging were the ones that went off on a tangent and were long pages of text.Objects such as the pirate stories took a long time to get through and I found them boring to read, Katie seemed to have little opinion of it, and they stopped the game play exploration element dead in its tracks.Because of this those micro narrative objects were not engaging.
Although these pirate stories added towards Katie's sister as a character,they failed to engage the player and there were many simpler examples which gave more narrative information on her sister.The dialogue after finding objects,the student objects around the sister's room,and the notes sent to and from her new friend all portrayed her personality as a student and how she acted as a friend.
The use of short and simple objects showing character relationships and personalities were more engaging than complex,large amount of information that pause the interactions/exploration of the player.
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Other objects that made the game engaging were some of the little objects that reaffirmed my ideas on what the story was or what the characters were like.Objects like highlighters,erasers,notes from her mother/father and such around Sam's room and in other locations reaffirmed the idea that she was a student studying and was trying to make friends at her new school.
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