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Design Approaches for Interactive Digital Narrative

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Interactive Storytelling (ICIDS 2015)

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While authoring has long been a concern for researchers engaged in interactive narrative, generalized design approaches have been less of a focus. At the same time, the need for design conventions to aid in the creation of artifacts has long been recognized, starting with Murray’s 1997 Hamlet on the Holodeck. However, unlike in the related field of game design, widely accepted, generalized conventions are still elusive. In this paper I investigate the state of affairs and identify several broad trajectories in the scholarly treatment of interactive narrative authoring. I propose a process and a set of design heuristics developed in my practice of teaching interactive digital narrative.

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  1. Department of Telecommunications, University of Georgia, 120 Hooper Street, Athens, GA, 30602-3018, USA

    Hartmut Koenitz

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  2. Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Luis Emilio Bruni

  3. Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, United Kingdom

    Sandy Louchart

  4. Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Sarune Baceviciute

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Koenitz, H. (2015). Design Approaches for Interactive Digital Narrative. In: Schoenau-Fog, H., Bruni, L., Louchart, S., Baceviciute, S. (eds) Interactive Storytelling. ICIDS 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9445. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27036-4_5

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