Interactive Narrative - week 4

How does morality influence the choices you make in the game?


 For this week I decided to play The Wolf among us, the first thing that caught my attention as soon as the game loaded was the animation and art style, it fits the game's story line quite well.
The game gives gives you four choices to chose from before anything else happens(but you can't take forever to chose your option) which is mainly based on morals, each option you chose leads to a different outcome in the story line, you can play the role of an ethically moral person or simply play the entire game by being immoral, I decided to chose mainly immoral options, because I wanted to see what path the story line would take, at the very beginning of the game, the character got into a big fight against another character who was beating a girl, prior to that fight, I decided to carefully chose my answer so that it would end up in a fight between the two characters, meaning that before anything happened I already knew that my answer was immoral and that it would lead to a pretty complicated or chaotic scenario, in this case the other guy got beaten up and ended up with an axe in his head, this made me think that people that have done horrible things in the past(eg crimes against humanity) were most likely aware that what they were doing was wrong and they simply didn't care about the consequences, of course some of them might have been blinded by their own ideals, but that is not an excuse to be forgiven.

for this game to be successful, The Wolf Among Us has to be interesting enough to motivate the player to do something, in "The Anatomy of a Player Choice" (page 115) argues "that if the player has absolutely no motivation, she would simply not do/choose anything", this is completely true, at times while playing the game, I got easily bored and had no motivation to keep playing the game and decided not to chose any of the options. This is a game driven by motivating or making the player more interested in its story.

The wolf among us is a really interesting game, because it allows the player to freely chose what path you want to take in the game, and you don't have to stick to a specific idea, you can chose moral and immoral answers or whatever you want.