I came across an example of the Frame Story narrative in a game today (topical as we did Narrative last Thursday). Silicon Knights (SK blog) is publishing Too Human – an Action/RPG game for the Xbox 360 (exclusive in 360 Gamer magazine) and it uses the Frame Story narrative.
Frame Story has been around a long time and was used in stories like The Canterbury Tales and Arabian Nights and as far back as Sanskrit texts in India. More up to date, Roleplaying games use the device, an example being Dragon Quest IV (1990) (AKA Dragon Warrior IV) being updated for the Nintendo DS this year (Japan only as yet) so there is precedence for Too Human.
Simply put it is a set of stories that are put together to make an overall story i.e. story in story. As ever Wikipedia is a starting point…
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