The Emotional Impact of Single-Player Narratives
Video games with in-game storytelling, or narratives, can enhance affective theory of mind (Borraman, et al., 2015). Some games also challenge the morals of players with various dilemmas and ways to control characters actions (Anderson, 2022). Through this, players may be left with emotional impacts or life takeaways after playing narrative based games. We used a Google Forms survey to collect the data for our research from college age students (n=50, mean of age = 19.6). We found that around 56% of our participants had an emotional impact when it came to the games that we had listed, and around 52% of participants had taken away some sort of idea or lesson from the games that they had played. Out of the 50 participants, about 44% of participants had played a game that was not on our list, but they still had an emotional impact, and around 32% were tied between entertainment and interest on their reasoning for playing the games.
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| Work Title | The Emotional Impact of Single-Player Narratives |
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| License | CC BY 4.0 (Attribution) |
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| Publication Date | April 19, 2024 |
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| Deposited | April 11, 2024 |