What Remains of Edith Finch and McPixel come close to being narrative anthologies, but they're more like sets of discrete scenes that don't ludically link back to a "core gameplay", but still narratively do, which means we can't count them as story collections. ISLANDS: Non-Places is an anthology, and none of its content has appeared in works prior, but you'll also notice that it doesn't have an explicit story narrative anthology games are one in a million. We have Warioware, but its "microgames" may be short enough to disqualify it as an anthology.
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There were a lot of those "100 Games in 1" cartridges, and they did contain original creations, but they tended to repurpose masses of code and assets between their games and were not taken seriously by video game connoisseurs. If you're thinking of an anthology in video gaming right now, then chances are it's a collection of classic retro games ported to a modern system rather than an original package.
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An alternative was to collect a series of micro-novels into a single tome, grouping them by author, theme, or mood, and that's how we got written anthologies.īy contrast, video game anthologies haven't been as prominent. Traditionally, publishers haven't sold these works separately because printing, binding, storing, and shipping a book with one short story in it didn't make economic sense. In science fiction, banging out a lot of short stories instead of one long one permits a writer experimentation with many different cultural and technological hypotheticals. In horror, a shorter story length allows an author to push their characters to the end of their psychological and mortal rope faster.
If you've read a lot of sci-fi and horror literature, you'll have sifted through plenty of short stories. Note: The following article contains major spoilers for Stories Untold.
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