InampampnbspPlaying at NarratologyampampnbspDaniel Punday bridges the worlds of digital media studies and narrative studies by arguing that digital media allows us to see unresolved tensions ambiguities and gaps in core narrative concepts. Rather than developing new terms to account for webbased storytelling Punday uses established narrative forms to better understand how digital media exposes faulty gaps in narrative theory. PundaysampampnbspPlaying at Narratologyampampnbspshows that artists video game developers and narrative theorists are ultimately playing the same game. ampampnbsp Returning to terms such asampampnbspnarrator setting event characterampampnbspandampampnbspworldampampnbspPlaying at Narratologyampampnbspreveals new ways of thinking about these basic narrative conceptsconcepts that are not so basic when applied to games and webbased narratives. What are thought of as narrative innovations in these digital forms are a product of technological ability and tied to how we physically interact with a medium creating new and complicated questions Is the game designer the implied author or the narrator Is the space on the screen simply the storys settingampampnbspPlaying at Narratologyampampnbspguides us through the evolution of narrative in new media without abandoning the fields theoretical foundations. ampampnbsp