ABSTRACT
This chapter examines a number of conceptually driven serious games and art games that demonstrate how Latin American game designers have taken advantage of the critical potential of the video game medium in unexpected ways. If anything, it may be Daniel Benmergui's games that most clearly speak to the dynamics: they respond procedurally to the very real exigencies of the narrative tradition, producing fascinating and often unexpected results by reworking poetic conventions within the framework of an electronic game. In conclusion, the relationship between Latin American game design and the narrative tradition shows a shift from the reception of narrative meaning to the interactive production of procedural meaning that combines with conventional narrative techniques. The chapter shows how narrative analysis is useful but insufficient for an understanding of video game's meaning. Some of the most intriguing ludic creations out of Latin America in the last decade or two have indeed taken on the narrative tradition in direct or indirect ways.
