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    Architectural experience in video games : spatial, temporal and narrative
    (Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü, 2014-04) Doma, Oğuz Orkun; Eyüce, Emine Özen
    Existence of humankind is temporal and spatial. Our experiences of acts are temporal and take place in spaces. When we tell stories, we design a spatiotemporal construction which mimics the reality while addressing to our deeper senses. Therefore the design of time and space is essential in narrative. Through ages, humankind has been telling their stories in evolving narrative forms: starting with a verbal tradition and developing into literature, theater, cinema, and most recently: video games. As a new form of design work in which the production and consumption cycles entirely take place in a digital medium, video games can also give us new perspectives on the experiential and representational relationships of the physical architecture, especially in an age when the borders between physical and virtual are blurring gradually. Interaction, agency and the significant role of flexible operational time in gameplay; creates a fundamental difference between video games and other narrative media. This thesis focuses on a framework of qualitative and phenomenological analysis of video game spaces, complementing and recontextualizing narrative and architectural theories of Gerard Genette, Kevin Lynch, Christian Norberg-Schulz and Michael Nitsche from a multidisciplinary perspective. Starting with an introduction to the history, theory and genres of videogames, this thesis intends to get inspired from frameworks of narrative, space and time discussed in various types of media like cinema, affiliating with architecture. Then an original analytic framework for spatial and temporal experience in video game spaces will be delivered. The framework will be illustrated on levels from Prince of Persia and Assassin’s Creed series, and possible ways to utilize the insights of this framework in the design of architecture and video games will be discussed.