SOCIAL SCIENCES

Reading Response to the Article “Narrative, Games, and Theory” by Jan Simons

Reading Response to the Article “Narrative, Games, and Theory” by Jan Simons

Introduction

“Game studies” has made its way in academics for last few years. Just like the film studies, that was about studying “what is cinema?”, games studies is about studying the nature of games. The subject of debate is the ontology of games and centers around the questions whether the games are narratives or not. This question has played the role of conflict between narratologists and ludologists. An article, Narrative, Games, and Theory by Jan Simons written in ...