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Computer games are a very young medium, still struggling to find their way in the artistic world.
One constant in gaming's short history has been designers' attempts to tell stories. After all, storytelling is in our blood, an enormously rewarding compulsion dating back to the dawn of humanity. With their focus on multimedia and interactivity, computer games ideally should be able to deliver new types of stories that have memorable plots, themes, and characters that also make you feel like an active participant living out the experience. Ironically, attempts at storytelling and immersing you in a game world have often been at odds with each other. To tell their stories, game designers have so far taken many of their techniques from film and books and have tried to apply those formats literally to games.