In-Game Novel: Difference between revisions

* An educational game example. The original [[JumpStart|Jump Start 1st Grade]] contained a modest bookshelf of in-game stories to teach young children reading. The books typically contained short stories that the game would read aloud with limited animated illustrations. Combined, there were 52 unique stories on the shelf, subjects of those stories ranging from counting, telling time, animals, caricatures of world cultures, silly poems, and entertaining short fiction, and at the end of each story the game would give a simple comprehension question at the end before proceeding to the next. Each story was an average of 3-4 pages each, the shortest stories were the Mother Goose rhymes at one page each, and the longest story was a whopping 10 in-game pages, seven at a close second. This meant the game featured a cumulative number of over 200 pages of fiction. For an educational game for first graders made in 1995, that does seem rather impressive.

** Its successor, Jumpstart 2nd Grade, only featured six stories at two pages each. The focus wasn't so much on reading the stories as filling in the blanks with parts of speech specific to the book chosen and customizing the story. This game focused slightly more on mathematics than reading, likely because the first grade game already covered that department quite well.

=== Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game ===

* [[World of Warcraft]] has books scattered all over the game world containing pieces of the lore of the game. The expansion dropped this habit for the most part, as well as contradicting a lot of said lore in a massive [[Retcon]] to pave the way for the two new playable races.

* [[Ultima Online]] not only had books that were readable (though none as long as a full novel), you could also buy blank books and ''write'' your own story, for the public to read. Some of these could be quite epic in length.

=== Platform Game ===

* ''[[Super Mario Bros.|Super Mario Galaxy]]'' contains a full illustrated children's book in the game. The book is substantial by video game standards, contains painted illustrations on each page, and could easily pass for an actual children's book. It details the backstory behind Rosalina.