Extreme Game Design: Reflections on Methodology of horror Spielrhetorische

In this article I am going with the help of rhetorical analysis means the methodology of the horror of how she is in game design the game SILENT HILL ??created second Here I will concentrate not on actual recipient responses, this question is to fall upon a qualitative and empirical research must be left open. Rather, first to the phenomenon of horror as entertaining response to a media-mediated everyday lifting can be interpreted generally and then specifically regarding SILENT HILL ??2 as Metastrategie investigated. For this purpose, I introduce the model of a game-rhetoric that is capable of action offers and constraints in games as argumentative negotiation between game design and player to translate. The model introduced a game-rhetoric to this end, the triadic relationship between rhetoric, communication object and audience, it then had to be amended for the specific Persuasionsbedarfe of the interactive entertainment medium, and to extend findings from social anthropology and the human-machine computer science computer-based games, so the idea to build a rhetorical control room to control the players try, succeed one game rhetoric, if players are persuaded permanently with the help of symbolic spielrhetorischer characters to play, ie a equilibre state between game system and playersIn manifested by continuous gameplay and players with the play action opportunities and requirements - identify - the design argument