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Narrative Design of Sadness in Heavy Rain

Author(s) -

Nelson Zagalo

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

journal of science and technology of the arts

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.13

H-Index - 3

eISSN - 2183-0088

pISSN - 1646-9798

DOI - 10.7559/citarj.v9i2.246

Subject(s) - sadness , narrative , virtue , character (mathematics) , computer science , aesthetics , passivity , multimedia , psychology , social psychology , art , literature , epistemology , philosophy , anger , mathematics , engineering , electrical engineering , geometry

Aware of all the problems videogames have faced trying to elicit sadness from its players, we decided to analyse the videogame Heavy Rain in virtue of its capabilities to induce sadness in the players. The game was studied under two different perspectives: the character’s non-verbal expressivity and the audiovisual artistic properties of the game. We have found that for the narrative design of sad interactive sequences, the game followed a three-stepped model made of: attachment, rupture, and passivity.

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