The Fantastic - How to Make Compelling Games Set in the Real World - Extra Credits

Games allow us to explore situations that may come up in our own lives, but they run the risk of being either too mundane to engage our interest or too metaphorical for us to relate to them. Tsvetan Todorov's literary theory of the Fantastic provides one solution. By adding a twist of the supernatural to an otherwise very ordinary world, we can create suspense as both the player and their character struggle to figure out whether this supernatural event can be rationally explained (the fantastic uncanny) or whether it represents some previously unrecognized twist to their accepted reality (the fantastic marvelous).
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