The paper will explore how the landscape types and the quest types are used in various games, how they structure the gameplay, how they act as bones for the game-content (graphics, dialogue, sound) and how they sometimes form the base on which a story is imposed and related to the player. The question then becomes, how does the quest structure influence the story structure? How do the limitations of the quest combinations limit the kinds of story that are possible? How rich can the imposed story be, without breaking the gameplay? Are landscape and quest-structure the dominant factors in quest game design, to which the story-ambitions must defer? The main thesis of the paper is that if we understand the powerful but simple structure - the grammar of quests (how they work, how they are used) we can understand both the limits and the potential of these kinds of games. © IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2005.
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Aarseth, E. (2005). From hunt the wumpus to EverQuest: Introduction to quest theory. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 3711 LNCS, pp. 496–506). https://doi.org/10.1007/11558651_48
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