From Faerie Tale to Adventure Game

Uses of Digital Enchantment : Computer Games as the New Fairy Tales

In this paper we argue that digital games have come to fill the cultural niche traditionally occupied by fairy tales, and that they are ideally suited to realize some of the unique characteristics of this genre of folklore and literature. One of the most influential authors of fantasy narrative, J.R.R. Tolkien, wrote extensively about fairy tales, authored fairy tales and considered his great e...

Create & Play: Exploiting the Dramatic Experience of Children by Playing Adventure Games

Within the process of plot development, authors create a complete story universe and develop the traits of its inhabitants. The inherit complexity of the story universe only adumbrates in the storyline, but it is crucial for its attractiveness and emotional impact. Interactive storytelling systems exploit the power of the author’s imagination by generating a variety of plots from a rich story u...

“ The Wilds , the Irish , and Hermaphrodites in Spenser ' s The Faerie Queen ”

Integration of a Physics Engine into an Adventure Game Platform

This paper presents the challenges and possibilities that arise from the integration of a 2D physics engine into an adventure game platform (i.e. engine and editor). This integration allows the use of a complex physics model within a narrative environment, thus increasing expressiveness and educational potential (through re-usability and increased challenge). In this work eAdventure is used as ...

Computer Games as Intelligent Learning Environments: A River Ecosystem Adventure

Our goal in this work has been to bring together the entertaining and flow characteristics of video game environments with proven learning theories to advance the state of the art in intelligent learning environments. We have designed and implemented an educational game, a river adventure. The adventure game design integrates the Neverwinter Nights game engine with our teachable agents system, ...