The spaces and places that video games create are often designed with a particular interaction or way to progress through them. This level of systems work extends beyond quick reflexes to social understanding, layered decision making, long term strategic thinking and rigorous practice. Players need to consider their environment, other opponents, team-mates, mission objectives, which weapon to use and how much health they have got. While the main aim of most of these games is to shoot enemies in the head to kill them, there are many other things also going on. They usually offer players a range of weapons, each of which behaves differently and require practice to use efficiently. Often called shooter games, or shooters, they test the player's spatial awareness, reflexes, and speed against computer characters and human other players in online games. Like the instinct of children to pick up sticks for imaginary gun-play, this offers players a chance to step into dangerous situations that raise the adrenaline and require high levels of skill and precision. Video games have had a long history of including shooting play. In this entry we are looking at Shooting games. This is designed for people new to gaming, and aims to identify games with the least barriers. In this series, we are learning how different aspects of video games work by playing games that offer an easy introduction to this one concept. What is broken in the space the game creates, and how/if it can be fixed. How other characters (and the world itself sometimes) reacts to your presence. The way that levers and buttons interact. Half caught sentences from passing characters. The narrative of video games is not usually told (link in books) or shown (like in films) but overheard. Less obviously, games can also communicate narrative through how they Simulate the world, what needs solving in Puzzles or even the Strategies players need to employ. Games can use Adventure, Action and Role-Playing to communicate elements of story to players. The best examples intertwine gameplay and storytelling, rather than interspersing short films ('Cut Scenes) between levels. Learning from the power of books and films, these games string together interactions not for excitement or competition but for storytelling beats. Narrative video games focus on telling a story about characters, worlds and themes.

In this entry we are looking at Narrative games.

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