Stories of the undead -- Rules of emergence (and the emergence of rules) -- Familiar storytelling and popular memories -- Making, breaking and bending rules at the textual margins -- Unstable media, infectious stories and migratory rules -- Delayed...
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Stories of the undead -- Rules of emergence (and the emergence of rules) -- Familiar storytelling and popular memories -- Making, breaking and bending rules at the textual margins -- Unstable media, infectious stories and migratory rules -- Delayed apocalypse, deliberate design. "Analyses the zombie video game genre in order to develop a framework for understanding emergent narratives in multiplayer video games, a phenomenon that sees elements of game design and player actions combine to create organic, unpredictable, and highly variable stories"--
Revision of author's thesis (doctoral) - University of Auckland, 2017, titled Exquisite corpses : narrative emergence in multiplayer zombie video games