Heavy Rain y Beyond: Dos almas. Dramas interactivos en la narración transmedia

Abstract

Since the nineties, transmedia storytelling has begun to spread through the new virtual avenues of information society of the 21st century. As part of these narratives is the “interactive drama”, which involves an exchange of technologies of film and videogame industry and restarts on different media and platforms. The purpose of this study is to analyze two “interactive dramas”: Heavy Rain and Beyond. Two Souls by director and developer David Cage. This research will see that these two games are part of the transmedia narrative, that offer new hybrid narrative forms, changing the reader in an interactive user. Also, there will be study the speech of the “interactive drama ” and its evolution in both dramatic-interactive texts.

Keywords

• Heavy Rain
• Beyond. Two Souls
• videogames
• interactive drama
• transmedia storytelling