A Narrative Study Of News Games

Newsgame is a kind of news narrative mode which combines games with news in the era of integrated culture.It takes the news content as the core of the story and the game form as the external packaging.The cross-border integration of two different narrative forms breaks the boundary between new and old media and different narrative genres,and creates a pioneering news narrative text,which leads traditional news reports from one-dimensional information dissemination to interactive story consumption by users,thus triggering a series of research upsurge and controversy.In view of this,this paper will mainly focus on the origin,attributes,interactive rules and narrative features of news games,take narrative theory as the main theoretical support,and take case analysis,in-depth interview and participatory observation as the main research methods,and answer such questions as "attribute dispute of news games","interactive logic and narrative performance of news games","applicable plots and themes of news games" and "narrative strategy suggestions of news games" Through research,this paper attempts to draw the following conclusions:First of all,the encounter between news and games is not accidental.The news game produced by the integration of game thinking and modern journalism is the historical inheritance of the long-standing game culture and the realistic adaptation to the integration and participation culture.The unique media environment endows the news game with the characteristics different from the traditional news narrative form.News game combines documentary news narrative and fictional game narrative,which breaks the traditional concepts of "documentary and fictional opposition" and "narrative and interactive opposition",and at the same time,it also causes discussion and controversy on the attribution of essential attributes of news games in academic circles and industry.These attribute disputes actually point to the fuzziness and complexity of the narrative of news games.Because news game,as a hybrid product,is different from traditional closed news narrative text and game narrative in general sense,we can't examine its aesthetic form by text analysis or interactive media theory alone.Based on this,this paper will use narrative theory to analyze the narrative problems of news games.Narrative theory covers the quality of narrative,the factors that affect the degree of narrative expression and the attributes of digital media that affect narrative experience.Narrative theory helps us to clarify the internal narrative differences of news games and better promote the integration of news forms and game forms.Secondly,on the whole,compared with traditional linear news narrative,news game narrative shows richer narrative performance and more active narrative tension.Different news game types not only show different narrative attributes,degrees and different user interaction modes,but also have different adaptation relationships between different news game themes and theme plots.Specifically,news games with weak narrative attributes such as interactive charts and social surveys have higher information fidelity and are suitable for information collection and presentation;News games with high narrative level,such as text editing and role playing,are more interesting and experienced,and are suitable for the event news with rich plot and impact.However,all news games are naturally not suitable for the subject matter with too dense information,because complex expression forms will reduce the clarity of information meaning,and it is only suitable for expressing news events with small and concentrated information points.If it is necessary to convey very rich,accurate and comprehensive information,it is not suitable to adopt the form of news games.Finally,based on the above research findings,we can improve the communication effect of news games by grasping the balance between interactive mechanism and narrative,the balance between content and form,and building brand effect.Specifically,it is suggested that news games should choose suitable subject matter,adopt appropriate narrative angle,formulate clear narrative route,plan aesthetic page design and form representative brand products.