Fairy Tales in Video Games | The Unfinished Swan and the Story of Play
Channel: The Game Overanalyser
Date: 2020-11-23

Fairy Tales are seen as stories for children, however, they often explore themes that are decidedly mature. In video games, Fairy tales have influenced some of the most thematically rich stories in our medium, whether it be ico, Brothers : a tale of two sons, or Limbo. This video traces the history of Fairy tales influence on game design, and the way Game designers have adapted this literary form to video games. However, fairy tales also illustrate some other things about our medium and society at large, the importance of indulging our instinct for both play and story.

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Sources

-The Ugly Duckling , Hans Christian Anderson

- Free to Learn , Peter Grey

- What Video Games teach us about Learning , James Gee

- On Fairy Stories  J. R. R Tolkien
http://brainstorm-services.com/wcu-2005/pdf/fairystories-tolkien.pdf

- Morphology of the Folktale , Vladimir Propp

- Young Children's Pretend Play 
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/302985025_Young_children's_pretend_play_and_storytelling_as_modes_of_narrative_activity_From_complementarity_to_cross-fertilization

- Ludologists love stories too, Gonzalo Frasca
https://ludology.typepad.com/weblog/articles/frasca_levelup2003.pdf

- Homo Ludens , Johann Huizinga