Nintendo and the New Digital Mythology

NINTENDO AND THE NEW

DIGITAL MYTHOLOGY

Christopher Michael Yap

Nara Institute of Science and Technology

Replaying Japan 2015, Ritsumeikan University, May 22, 2015

Christopher Michael Yap クリストファー・マイケル・ヤップ

• From: Honolulu, Hawaii USA

• Education: University of Hawaii, Manoa

• Undergraduate Studies: English Literature (英文学)

• Nara Institute of Science and Technology （奈良先端科学技術大学院大）

• Interactive Narrative / Emergent Narrative

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Dungeon Map

• Chapter 1: Why is Storytelling Essential?

• Chapter 2: Mythology Until Now

• Chapter 3: Digital Mythology: The Old and the New

• Chapter 4: The Mysterious Mountain Path

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Why is

Storytelling

Essential to Us?

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To Preserve and Maintain Identity

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STORIES CONNECT

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Stories are the

realities we create

for ourselves

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ONE OF THE MOST ENDURING FORMS IS...

MYTHOLOGY 8


REMINDER THAT WE CAN SHAPE OUR OWN

DESTINY


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PA

X E

ast

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THE GOALS OF MYTH THROUGH

GAMES

• Player is passive observer active

participant

• Ownership/Authorship of the tale

passes to the player

• Player manifests as the Hero

• Myth becomes the story of the Player

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= Immersive

Properties

of Game

Worlds

Power to

create

indelible

Narrative

Experience

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THE POWER OF GAMES FOR

MYTH


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Logic Reason Order

Analysis Science Control

Freedom Creativity Passion Chaos

Imagination Feeling


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Stories Tech

Creativity Ingenuity

Digital

Mythology

Of

Our Time


LEGENDS

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EPIC STRUGGLES

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ODES TO THE FALLEN

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The mythology （in and） of Games is there to remind of us that we have the strength and goodness in ourselves to win.

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SONGS OF VICTORY

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What’s this?

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???

“THE MYSTERIOUS ROAD…”

Where does

this lead?

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It leads to the here and now...

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It leads to a future for Japan Game Studies. I hope that it’s a future that we can all explore together.

Let’s talk!

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