Story vs. Gameplay

<p>Story or gameplay... WHO WINS? This week, the Triple Click gang dives into an age-old debate and discusses the tension between action and narrative in video games. What does a "video game story" actually mean? What's more important, story or gameplay? And does it even really matter?</p><p><strong>One More Thing: </strong></p><p><strong>Kirk: </strong>Vampire Survivors </p><p><strong>Maddy: </strong>First Kill</p><p><strong>Jason:</strong> AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES - nirvanA Initiative</p><p><strong>Links:</strong></p><p>Clint Hocking’s “Ludonarrative Dissonance in BioShock” - <a href="https://clicknothing.typepad.com/click_nothing/2007/10/ludonarrative-d.html">https://clicknothing.typepad.com/click_nothing/2007/10/ludonarrative-d.html</a></p><p>Hocking’s 2011 GDC talk “Dynamics: State of the Art” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St2fE049ULI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St2fE049ULI</a></p><p>Kirk’s “Gameplay and Story are Exactly like Music and Lyrics” - https://kotaku.com/gameplay-and-story-are-exactly-like-music-and-lyrics-5885432</p><p>Stephen Payne’s excellent Dicebreaker article about ancient role-playing and strategy games: https://www.dicebreaker.com/categories/roleplaying-game/feature/dnd-influences-roleplaying-games-centuries</p><p>Support Triple Click:<a href="http://maximumfun.org/join"> http://maximumfun.org/join</a></p><p>Buy a Triple Click t-shirt: <a href="https://topatoco.com/collections/maximum-fun/products/maxf-tc-tclogo-sh">https://topatoco.com/collections/maximum-fun/products/maxf-tc-tclogo-sh</a></p><p>Join the Triple Click Discord: <a href="http://discord.gg/tripleclickpod">http://discord.gg/tripleclickpod</a></p><p>Triple Click Ethics Policy: </p><p><a href="https://maximumfun.org/triple-click-ethics-policy/">https://maximumfun.org/triple-click-ethics-policy/</a></p>