Mindmap: Narrative Architecture

Examples:

1. Evocative Spaces
   • Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order
     • Builds off of players existing knowledge of the Star Wars story-world and familiarity with characters/plots/landscape
2. Enacting Stories
   • Pokemon Heart Gold 
     • The game offers “tweaks” in the shape of local challenges that turn into side-storylines in addition to main plot
3. Embedded Narrative
   • Escape Rooms or Clue 
     • Players must reconstruct the plot to figure out what is happening or what to do 
4. Emergent Narrative
   • Zoo Tycoon (Sandbox version in particular)
     • Users can decide to follow the game’s goal of building a financially successful zoo or decide to focus more on building one’s ideal zoo to whatever desired extent, regardless of customer satisfaction or game’s offered narrative.