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The Last of Us (2013)

Duration: 55:52

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This is the seventh segment of "The Rootwork Building: Interactive and Thematic Structure in The Last of Us."

PROJECT OVERVIEW: This video essay explores how The Last of Us uses game design to tell a fixed story. The game uses interactive structure to set a pattern that appears throughout the game's presentation. Understanding this pattern is important for understanding how the game tells its story. Understanding this pattern is also important for understanding the story itself.

THEMATIC STRUCTURE III: GOVERNMENT IN DAVID'S CAMP AND AMONG THE FIREFLIES

Our seventh segment looks at how structure informs the presentation of government in David's Camp and among the Fireflies. It concludes the work of the sixth video, and it points us forward to the final elements under consideration for the theme of human ecologies in The Last of Us.

NEXT SEGMENT: THEMATIC STRUCTURE III, PART 3

MEDIA NOTES:

* The title card music is "The Last of Us (A New Dawn)" (Gustavo Santaolalla) from the official soundtrack of The Last of Us. The introduction music is "The Smugglers" (Gustavo Santaolalla). The OST tracks used in "The Rootwork Building" were all legitimately purchased and have not been licensed for the purpose of this video.

* Visual and audio media in this video was recorded from The Last of Us (Naughty Dog/Sony 2013).

* This video uses the public demo of "Headliner No. 45" by KC Fonts. This font is used here for personal purposes and does not violate the terms on which it was made available for download.

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