Espen Aarseth is Associate Professor at the Center of Computer Games Research, IT University of Copenhagen Author of Cybertext Author of numerous papers on games and narrative. Heres the man himself: http://vimeo.com/7097715

Story Game Experience A More story = less game? Experience B More game = less story? Commonly held belief is that story and game dont mix very well That the more story there is, so the less game there will be and vice versa.

Kernels Key events. Narrative moments where the course of events is decided (Seymour Chatman 1978) Satellites Minor events. do not entail any choice, but serve to flesh out the consequences and details of the kernels (Seymour Chatman 1978)