Frame Narrative

Frame narrative provide a background for a story, it does not works during the game and players cannot interact with the frame. Frame narrative helps player to understand the game. Most of games are designed to happen based on a story, a frame narrative can help players to immerse the game, understand the game and bring a better game experience to the players.

In some games, there are many elements that we do not touch in our daily life, like some myth in different countries, not every player can understand the story without a frame narrative, so the frame narrative help players understand the game better.

For example, the frame narrative in the game "Among us" is there are crewmates and imposters in a space ship that is going to take off and they have to find the imposters to take off the ship, if the players do not know why they have crewmates and imposters and why they have to finish the tasks, so the game will not that attractive for players.

Quick Summary


 * Non-interactive narrative
 * The game has a non-interactive background story to provide context
 * Having context allows for an immerse game experience
 * It may or may not be necessary to understand the storyline

Reference

http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/interactive_narrative

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frame_story