Abstract from Lost in the funhouse, postmodern meta-reflections in videogames.

This paper analyzes the way stories are told in modern videogames. It demonstrates that the narrative techniques used in videogames can be compared with narrative techniques found in postmodern writing. Despite these similarities videogames rarely express a postmodern awareness that is typical for postmodern fiction and other forms of postmodern art. This paper therefore ends with a description of a newly created game that expresses this postmodern awareness with the help of postmodern meta-reflections.