MAKING SENSE:

In this paper, visual, auditory, and kinesthetic design elements are introduced with regard to their sense-specific narrative qualities or properties. Discussing perceived hierarchies of different sensory stimuli and their reciprocal effects through contrast and agreement, the paper shows how different forms of juxtaposition create meaning, reinforce player emotions, strengthen memory formation and retrieval, and support various dramatic functions within individual beats through incongruity and ambiguity and through clarification and intensification.