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名詞

narrative link (複数形 narrative links)

1. (gaming) A storytelling provided by a leader of a story dramatization to link playable moments. This is a useful technique to fast forward over unplayable moments, to make time pass quickly, or to guide the players of a game if they are stuck.
   • 2003, Barry Atkins, More Than a Game: The Computer Game as Fictional Form, page 57:

     It is also worth noting that it is usually possible to dispose of such narrative links with one or two keystrokes, which indicates just how peripheral they are to the core business of gameplay.

   • 2015, Andy Bossom, ‎Ben Dunning, Video Games: An Introduction to the Industry, page 41:

     The look and game style can be bright and colorful, with matching sound effects, such as Candy Crush Saga (2012) with its sweet shop fantasy graphic style, or woven into stories full of ambiance and mystery where the player needs to understand complex narrative links to solve and conclude the game as found in Gone Home (2013) or The Witness (2014).

   • 2019, Rachael Hutchinson, Japanese Culture Through Videogames:

     A cut-scene is a brief cinematic that serves as a reward for player progress, a narrative link between scenes, or a flashback sequence to add depth to the narrative and characterization.

2. (more generally) A short narrative that serves to provide a transition that links more detailed stories or scenes into a larger narrative structure.
   • 1988, Robert Walter Funk, The Poetics of Biblical Narrative, page 257:

     The soldiers as a group have disappeared from the fourth segment; all that is left of them is a single centurion (15:39), who is to serve as a narrative link with the next segment (15:44).

   • 1992, John Sailhamer, The Pentateuch as Narrative: A Biblical-theological Commentary, page 25:

     Thus, the genealogies of "Shem" provide a narrative link between the story of Babylon and the account of the call of Abraham.

   • 2007, Marvels & Tales - Volume 21, page 75:

     The prologue tale is not a separate tale independent of the other tales; instead, it is a narrative unit, or narrative link, that coheres with a larger story.

   • 2008, Christopher Nouryeh, The Art of Narrative in the Holy Qur'ān, page 65:

     Often between performatives Muhammad inserts what may be called an inter-narrative or a narrative link. Its purpose, if I'm right, is to suggest the Holy Book's overarching power, to reinforce the event potentially gestating in its narratives.