Welcome to Interactive Stories: Storytelling in Videogames, a blog open as a practical assigment of the subject of "Practicas de Redaccion Inglesa" of the UM ("Universidad de Murcia").
The main theme of the blog would be, as the title suggest, to talk about videogames as a storytelling medium, looking through how the art of telling stories has evolved through the origins of videogames to this day, while also reviewing different games, focusing mainly on their plot, but without forgetting to mention graphics, music and gameplay, all of them very important when it comes to telling a story in videogames. Also, different works related to the course will be uploaded, even if they are not related to the topic in question of the blog.
The aim of this blog is to introduce to the general public an often forgotten aspect of videogames. The electronic media is growing spectaculary fast an the average age of consumers is increasing, but there are still several negatives stereotypes surrounding videogames, not helped by the fact that the media mainly focus on the worst example of the community of "gamers". With this blog, I hope to atleast open a little more the minds of those who read it, and to consider games, not just as a brainless entertaiment for men-children or little more than kids games, but a media deserving of the calificative of art, or atleast with the potential of being so, and an unique way of telling all sort of stories.
