Task 1 – Forms of Storytelling

Text: There are quite a lot of games that are based from books and some games have little cameos from there books. The assassins creed game is based from the 1930's novel Alamut, which is about a small group of assassins known as the Hashshashin that have taken on a mission, These assassins use the motto "Nothing is an absolute reality, all is permitted.". In the first Assassins Creed game it takes place in the crusades and is based around a powerful assassin known as Altar who is battling against an enemy group known as the Templar's to try and receive magical artifacts. Alamut doesn't talk a lot about the magical artifacts. what makes he book and game more relative is that the game uses the same motto "Nothing is true, everything is permitted."

There are also games that are based from comic books for example The Walking Dead this is one of the most popular comic book series. The comic books are based on a group of survivors taking on the world that has been taken down by a zombie apocalypse and trying to survive around the dangers with it being other human survivors or the hordes of zombies that await ahead. The telltales game is like a living comic book where you take control of the characters and you decide what happens, your actions decide on how the story concludes. The game is also based on survivors trying to survive the zombie apocalypse. Although the comic books are released in issues, The game is released every 1-2 years and is released with 1-5 episodes that release every 3 weeks.

Theater: It is hard to find a game that is based on theater. The only game that would relate to games would be Puppeteer, where the player takes control of a puppet and uses skills of a puppet to move around the world. At the beginning of the game curtains slide across from the side of the screen making it look like a play is about to start.

  

Film: Almost every film has a game for example, Alien Vs Predator was released in 2004, the story behind the movie is that it is based at a fighting ground where the Aliens and Predators fight .As it hasn't happened in century's the humans discover a tunnel that leads to the hunting arena. This sends a distress signal up to the predators causing them to land and kill who ever is at the arena. The humans are then under attack with Aliens (xenomorphs). This causes a war between all 3.

The Alien Vs Predator game is based of the film the only difference being is that you as the player take control of all 3 classes to all have a different outcome. The marines are there to destroy the alien pods and kill there queen. when you take control of the predator you fight both aliens and marines using a set of skills and weapons like a laser blaster or a spear and when you are the alien you move more stealthily as youonly have your claws, tail and bite actions to defend yourself against the Maines gun power and the predators abilities.

  

Television: Some games are based of TV shows, not every TV show has a game based off of it, like The Simpsons. The Simpsons has a game based off the show The Simpsons Hit an Run which was released in 2003 where you was given Springfield as the open world and had mechanics from games like Grand Theft Auto, where you could steal peoples cars and fight any civilian you wanted to. The Simpsons Hit and Run lets the players take control of all the Simpsons family and some of the extra characters that are shown in the TV series.

Another game based off of a TV show is Game Of Thrones. The Games Of Thrones game takes place in six episodes where each episode is based off a different house.The players take control of each of the characters and choose there actions through out the episodes, your actions decide whether the character is safe to live or one more step to die.

The Game Of Thrones TV show takes place in Westeros which is a fictional place where it is split between seven kingdoms. Each kingdom has a ruler where all rulers hate a different ruler and theres a war between each of the kingdoms. The biggest war between is a race to the throne.