Narrative Architecture in Game Design

Jerry Qu
Game Design Fundamentals
1 min readMay 5, 2020

My favorite games:

Embedded narrative — The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild for the many clues and memories Link finds.

Emergent narrative — Minecraft for how it allows players to create their player’s own stories.

Enacted narrative — Total War for how it takes the player through historical events by allowing them to replay them.

Evoked narrative — Sea of Thieves, a pirate game where players can form pirate crews together.

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