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Authoring for Interactive Storytelling

When, Why, and Do We Actually Need Authoring Tools?

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Interactive Storytelling (ICIDS 2018)

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One of the most significant challenges facing narrative systems research is the authoring of interactive stories, and the processes and technologies to support it. In this workshop we host a discussion and present new work in this space from researchers in creative and technical domains from both the Hypertext and Interactive Storytelling communities and explore the question: When, why, and do we actually need authoring tools?

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Mitchell, A., Spierling, U., Hargood, C., Millard, D.E. (2018). Authoring for Interactive Storytelling. In: Rouse, R., Koenitz, H., Haahr, M. (eds) Interactive Storytelling. ICIDS 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11318. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04028-4_63

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