@inproceedings{55baa68d9b804fc9a73b6939bc507ba2,
title = "From Hunt the Wumpus to EverQuest: Introduction to Quest Theory",
abstract = "The paper will explore how the landscape types and the quest types are used in various games, how they structure the gameplay, how they act as bones for the game-content (graphics, dialogue, sound) and how they sometimes form the base on which a story is imposed and related to the player. The question then becomes, how does the quest structure influence the story structure? How do the limitations of the quest combinations limit the kinds of story that are possible? How rich can the imposed story be, without breaking the gameplay? Are landscape and quest-structure the dominant factors in quest game design, to which the story-ambitions must defer? The main thesis of the paper is that if we understand the powerful but simple structure - the grammar - of quests (how they work, how they are used) we can understand both the limits and the potential of these kinds of games.",
keywords = "Landscape Types, , Quest Types, , Gameplay Structure, , Story-Gameplay Relationship, , Game Design Ontology",
author = "Aarseth, {Espen J.}",
year = "2005",
language = "English",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science",
publisher = "Springer",
pages = "496--506",
editor = "Fumio Kishino and Yoshifumi Kitamura and Hirokazu Kato and Noriko Nagata",
booktitle = "Entertainment Computing - ICEC 2005",
address = "Germany",
note = "Entertainment Computing - ICEC 2005 : 4th International Conference ; Conference date: 19-09-2005 Through 21-09-2005",
}