{"id":630,"date":"2020-03-31T18:51:53","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T18:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/elit20\/?p=630"},"modified":"2020-03-31T18:51:53","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T18:51:53","slug":"her-story-not-your-stereotypical-videogame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/elit20\/2020\/03\/31\/her-story-not-your-stereotypical-videogame\/","title":{"rendered":"Her Story, not your stereotypical videogame!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Her Story is a video game in which you use a database to try and piece together the murder of Simon, the player\u2019s fathers. In my opinion, Her Story is not your stereotypical type of video game for many reasons. When you first start playing the game, there is not a clear finishing point or marker that you have to achieve; you don\u2019t really know when you are approaching the end of the game, which frustrated me. In addition, at the beginning of the game you know that you are trying to piece together a murder case but you do not know why. It is only when you have watch most, if not all of the videos that the game reveals that the character in which you are playing is\u00a0 Eve\u2019s daughter and the reason she is trying to piece together the murder. She is trying to understand the actions of her mother. In more stereotypical video games, the main objective of the game is usually pretty clear and laid out at the beginning of the game.<\/p>\n

Secondly, in most video games you leave the game feeling pretty accomplished and settled.\u00a0 However, after finishing this game I felt unsettled and questioned if I truly understood the storyline of the murder. At first, I thought that Eve was a figment of Hannah\u2019s imagination, and then towards the end of the game I believed that Eve was her identical twin sister, who had gotten pregnant by Simon. However, after playing the game I thought that maybe Hannah had had a spilt personality, and at some points she would become Eve after looking at her reflection in the mirror. Even though, I was pretty sure that Eve was Hannah identical twin, I still had doubts if that was the case or if she had a spilt personality. As a result, I still felt unsettled after \u201cfinishing\u201d the video game unlike the feeling I would have after finishing more stereotypical video games. In addition, I thought that the background music when you were not watching a clip and the background of Hannah with the police sirens (that would sometime come up after you finish watch a clip) were pretty ominous.<\/p>\n

Lastly, using a database to try and understand and piece together the murder was a unique way of solving a mystery video game. “Cactus Blue Hotel<\/a>” was kind of like a mystery interactive twine video game, and the methods for you to understand why the motel was not just your average motel was completely different from having a database system.\u00a0 In that game you had to go to people\u2019s apartments and talk to them to understand the mystery of the game. While when playing “Her Story”, you had to enter words that seemed related to the crime and see if new videos appears. In watching the new videos, I would be on the lookout for new key words and people to try and piece together the murder, which I think is pretty neat and an innovate and more interactive way of piecing together Simon\u2019s murder. In addition, I think “Her Story” is an example of how the databases could be used to form a narrative.<\/p>\n

To conclude, I believe that “Her Story” is not your stereotypical video game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Her Story is a video game in which you use a database to try and piece together the murder of Simon, the player\u2019s fathers. In my opinion, Her Story is not your stereotypical type of video game for many reasons. When you first start playing the game, there is not a clear finishing point or …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":274,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-group-d"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/elit20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/elit20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/elit20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/elit20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/274"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/elit20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/elit20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":631,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/elit20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions\/631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/elit20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/elit20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.digitaldavidson.net\/elit20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}