But many "narratological" texts come from a narrative2 tradition, where on one hand people are keen to point out the activities of the user, but on the other hand the idea that a text/game may possess specific properties is not always acceptable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ye Olde Disciplinary Punch-and-Judy Show] Reference

If anything, when first-person-shooters first appeared with narratological structure that resembled the narrative of action films, to some extent that content was a superficial add-on rather than a deep structure of gameplay, a kind of narratological “skin”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing: September 5, 2004 - September 11, 2004 Archives] Reference

The poem's narratological structure elaborates this strategy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ruins of Empire: Nationalism, Art, and Empire in Hemans's Modern Greece] Reference

Since I define a number of narratological terms in the paper, this took a while, but now it's all consistent.    From Wordnik.com.  [revisioning] Reference

But I've gone to a lot of video game talks about, you know, narratological stuff, you know, storytelling matters and character matters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Video Games: The 21st Century's Fine Art Frontier] Reference

And more to the point, you could take this style of analysis into as many realms of cultural study as the narratological style itself had already invaded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ye Olde Disciplinary Punch-and-Judy Show] Reference

The need to study games in this way is separate from narratological and other interdisciplinary studies of games but does not discount them as unnecessary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ye Olde Disciplinary Punch-and-Judy Show] Reference

The problem is that the narratological kinship between Die Hard and first-person-shooters is a much more complicated matter in its actual historical evolution.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boing Boing: September 5, 2004 - September 11, 2004 Archives] Reference

This is a place where conventional structural forms of ludological thinking go badly wrong, I think, where a more narratological interest in content, meaning, communicative capacity is necessary.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Liabilities of Licenses] Reference

I shudder to think how many blog posts I've read but this is the first time I've seen a post explicitly composed of 'garbage' and it's setting off all kinds of unexpected narratological sparks and stirrings, as quite often happens with posts on your blog.    From Wordnik.com.  [Garbage Day] Reference

When you strip away the artwork, music, backstory, and are left with nothing but a set of arbitrary signs manipulated by a set of game rules, there is still an aesthetic experience that is utterly undescribable within narratological or any other discourse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ye Olde Disciplinary Punch-and-Judy Show] Reference

Greece, which is an adaptation of the conventionally masculine travelogue genre, she is sensitive to the hazards of this project, employing innovative generic modes and narratological structures to manage the public fallout of gender-based discursive transgressions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Article Abstracts] Reference

Again, I like very much your assertion of the importance of a historical, even Bakhtinian perspective on game genres, but I think this perspective is a departure from most canonical ludological writing, even more so than the narratological view as you've presented it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ye Olde Disciplinary Punch-and-Judy Show] Reference

In Modern Greece, which is an adaptation of the conventionally masculine travelogue genre, she is sensitive to the hazards of this project, employing innovative generic modes and narratological structures to manage the public fallout of gender-based discursive transgressions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ruins of Empire: Nationalism, Art, and Empire in Hemans's Modern Greece] Reference

At some point, you arrive, as I did, at a stage in your writing career where you trust yourself, where critique is still helpful, but you understand the narratological choices you've made in the writing itself -- why you wrote what you did, the effects you hoped to acheive, the issues you wanted to address.    From Wordnik.com.  [about writing] Reference

You can certainly study music in terms of theories of narrative, but there are elements that can only be viewed by studying 'music as music' and examining the aesthetics of the aural experience, which justifies the position of music theory in academia as a discipline separate from narratological and other interdisciplinary studies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ye Olde Disciplinary Punch-and-Judy Show] Reference

Oh, I don't think Doom with 200 demons in each map would be fun (not to mention that it would be impossible); I have in mind a narratological claim I heard in conversation (at the Bristol conference, actually), that the narrative structure of Doom was authorially designed to reproduce a typical capitalist-individualist-masculinist narrative of a single male "Horatio Alger" type beating the odds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ye Olde Disciplinary Punch-and-Judy Show] Reference

Tim Oh, I don't think Doom with 200 demons in each map would be fun (not to mention that it would be impossible); I have in mind a narratological claim I heard in conversation (at the Bristol conference, actually), that the narrative structure of Doom was authorially designed to reproduce a typical capitalist-individualist-masculinist narrative of a single male "Horatio Alger" type beating the odds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ye Olde Disciplinary Punch-and-Judy Show] Reference

This gets historical relationships between different media products wrong, but it also asserts by way of "narratological reason" a feature of the game narrative that just doesn't make sense as a deliberate statement or authorially intended communication: Doom is the way it is both because it was technically necessary to limit the number of demons in a given map and because it's no fun to die repeatedly as you're mobbed by 500 demons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ye Olde Disciplinary Punch-and-Judy Show] Reference

Why is the above a 'narratological' claim?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ye Olde Disciplinary Punch-and-Judy Show] Reference

Essentially, here I am making a narratological case, even though I have frequently argued the other side of this.    From Wordnik.com.  [Raph's Website] Reference

Beyond its biological function, semen has been applied with surprising frequency to metaphorical and narratological purposes.    From Wordnik.com.  [AvaxHome RSS:] Reference

Ultimately, for all their differences in location, background and interests, Ray, Ganguly asserts, was responding to the same "actual material pressures" that European theorists such as Adorno were confronting in their own contexts, and this is evident from "Ray's formal and narratological strategies.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) - Frontpage] Reference

"Slumdog Millionaire" 's central narratological device (tying extended flashbacks to Millionaire questions) isn't any harder won than, say, printing fiat money or rhyming words by changing their last syllable, but the soundtrack, photography, directing, editing, and acting riveted me to my seat and made the film a party-in-a-movie-theater.    From Wordnik.com.  [indieWIRE News] Reference

Our convener, Bill Galperin, sees Frank as his narratological ally here (71-72): casting Emma as Picnic Queen is an arbitrary empowerment that in effect solicits Mr. Knightley’s coup de grace.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boxing Emma; or the Reader’s Dilemma at the Box Hill Games] Reference

Fictions, a course with structuralist and narratological leanings that was later retitled for gender neutrality), and Lit Y (an overview of twentieth-century literary theory, usually taught as a lecture course by Peter Demetz).    From Wordnik.com.  [Appendix I: Courses Taught by Paul de Man during the Yale Era] Reference

Is this a narratological position?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ye Olde Disciplinary Punch-and-Judy Show] Reference