"Games, the Contents and the Economy" written by Acean D Park]

泥中蟠龍 's Game 愛歌 [A love song for games of the dragon waiting for an opportunity]   Importance of a narrative in a video game   The film is generally called 'gesamtkunstwerk (a total work of art)'. It delivers artistic beauty of arts and photograph by images which is visual arts and shows the beauty of music and literature by sound effects and lines. So, in that respect, a video game, I think, is also very close to comprehensive artwork because it contains visual images, sound effects, and stories. Today I'd like to talk about the narrative, one of the most important parts of the total artwork. In fact, hardly domestic game users read a story. Less than 10% of players probably cleared story mode of StarCraft which, I estimate, millions of Korean have played. It is common for players to skip lines while playing RPGs. The situation has made game designers not be interested in a narrative. From a conversation with them, I found that they are satisfied...