“Ludonarrative dissonance” is a term coined in 2007 by video game designer and director Clint Hocking. The term breaks down like this: ludus, the Latin word for game, the game’s narrative, and the ...

The Witness and Braid creator Jonathan Blow has made some interesting comments on ludonarrative dissonance, a favourite talking point of games criticism. Speaking to Time, Blow objected to the term ...

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Jonathan Blow has hit out at the concept of ludonarrative dissonance, claiming that ‘even the award-winning games have terrible stories’. Ludonarrative dissonance is the term commonly used to refer to ...

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The Uncharted series may be a multi-award winning, best-selling franchise, but it has always struggled to escape criticism targeted around ludonarrative dissonance. Nathan Drake seems like a generally ...

Jordan Garland looks at Far Cry 3’s narrative arc, the nature of a linear plot in an open world full of possibility and how binary choice ultimately doesn’t work in the game. If you've heard anything ...

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