نآهنگی بازیگویانه در بازی‌های ویدیویی جهان‌محور

The author explores the issue of “ludonarrative dissonance”, a term developed by the game designer C. Hocking in his critique of the game BioShock. The author explains Hocking’s arguments and then expands on the term, disagreeing with Hocking. In the case of BioShock, the author interprets the dissonance not as a design flaw but as a deliberate narrative strategy that momentarily distances the player from the game’s fiction to emphasize its metanarrative dimension. The author argues that ludo...