Perennial Games
Abstract
The perennial games project is an in-depth investigation of narrative in ongoing live-service games, such as Destiny 2, League of Legends, and Final Fantasy XIV. Through mixed methods studies of players, developers, and games, this project investigates how the ongoing development of narrative affects a community of players, helps the community grow and change, while also affecting the game and its developers in turn through an ongoing interaction. This has been studied with interviews, a long-running ethnography of the Destiny 2 community, and game analysis.
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Publications
Community, Storytelling, and Play: Making and Breaking Rituals in Destiny 2
Larsen, B., Carstensdottir E.. Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Factors. 2024 May;11:1–18.
https://dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.1145/3613904.3642679
Communal Ritual Play: Repetition and Interpretation of Game Narratives Across Communities
Larsen B., Junius N., Carstensdottir E.. International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling. 2023 October;31:472–488.
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-031-47655-6_29
”Anything a Guardian Does Is Canonical”: Player Understanding of Canon in Destiny
Larsen, B., Carstensdottir E.. Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play. 2023 October;7:237–263.
https://doi.org/10.1145/3611029
Myth, Diegesis and Storytelling in Perennial Games
Larsen, B., Carstensdottir E.. International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling. 2022 December;2:634–650.
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-031-22298-6_41
Wrestling with Destiny: Storytelling in Perennial Games
Larsen, B., Carstensdottir E.. International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling. 2021 December;14:236–254.
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-030-92300-6_22