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- 1 hour online tutorial per week in small groups
- 24 hours total for student to complete all formative tasks associated with the online tutorial
- 276 hours of self guided study to complete summative assignment.

The ethos behind the development of the interactive narrative design module is to examine the complex issues surrounding the nexus of play, storytelling, and the mechanics of games design.
This module introduces students to structuralist and post-structuralist narratological concepts and theory, and utilises them to deconstruct texts, films and games into basic structures that can be easily identified and utilised in the analysis of other narrative content. Students learn that both the classical ways of understanding stories and the classical methods of designing and writing stories are problematic when it comes to understanding how and why players interact with the narrative content of games.
The second semester of the module will look into current industry debates and academic theory, and students will be expected to develop a design ethos for interactive narrative design. Students undertake research and analysis of current debates in the games industry and in Games Studies as to issues inherent in interactive story design. Utilising research, and current debates, students then design their own interactive narratives, and provide a detailed analysis of their own design ethos. Assessments¿ are designed to provide a new generation of games designers with the skill-set needed to design and implement the next generation of story based games, and provide graduates with a unique set of abilities to allow them to stand out in today¿s competitive industry marketplace.

Courswork weighted at 100% comprising:-

A written 3000 word assignment weighted at 50%
- Assessing learning outcomes 1 & 2

- A written 3000 word assignment weighted at 50%
Assessing learning outcomes 3 & 4