For the article I read, A Practical Guide to a Hero's Journey was about how myths help us create stories for games. Myths help convey the values of society and teaches people who they and how they should behave. A myth can be brought to life in a game which would make you feel you are seeing what might these myths might have been. There are a few steps we can take when creating a story for a game:
Step 1: Pick your premise which is a theme or myth. It will help decide what your game is about and how people behave and think after playing your game.
Step 2: Create your main character that embodies the premise. Also create a enemies that will help further the premise.
Step 3: Create the character's world.
Step 4: Disrupt the character's world. You have to force the main character into action to help the story.
Step 5: Create levels that takes the player from one place to another. Each level should show some incremental growth, or struggle in the character's development.
Step 6: Confront the main enemy/main boss of the game.
Step 7: Collect your prize from winning the game.
These steps bring the story all together help create your concept.
In the article, a person named Gerard Jones is talked about. He has book called "Killing Monsters" and in the book, Gerard wrote about how playing violent games actually helped one young boy named Johnathan: "Games gave Johnathon control over events where he and others felt none and, perhaps even more important, they gave him control over his own feelings. With these games Johnathan no longer felt as helpless. He was not as scared of others or his own feelings". This is fascinating and I was interested to learn more about Gerard Johns.
Another interesting topic stated Rollo May postulated that narcotics are myth-substitutes because they allow people to assert control over their environment even for a short period of time.
I enjoyed reading this article and learning about stories in games. I hope it will help me with my game project.
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