Revelation
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Synopsis
Expressing an encounter with something special. |
Relationships
Context:
Emotional Script , Awareness .
Differs from:
Achievement .
Description
While exploring the game world, the player encounters many entities with disparate value (objects, places, characters, events, ...). Sound is instrumental to reveal to the player the extraordinary importance of a particular finding. Even when there are visual clues that would be enough to realize such importance, sound still has the potential to enlarge the episode's Emotional Script.
Sometimes, and particularly in linear games, Revelation resembles an Achievement. And, actually, sometimes it even happens that an Achievement immediately follows a Revelation. Yet, the two concepts are distinct – whilst Achievement is meant to reward, Revelation is meant to enlarge the perception of a finding.
Examples
External Resources
Examples of Revelation sounds from movies:
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail, in chapter "The Tale of Sir Galahad" (about 0:00:35), when encountering Castle Anthrax.