Narrative Threads: A Tool to Support Young People in Interactive Digital Storytelling

Supporting the Development of Interactive Storytelling Skills in Teenagers

In this paper, we discuss the development of young people’s interactive storytelling skills within a game creation environment. We describe the Gamemaker workshop series, in which young people learn to use a commercial game creation environment to develop interactive, branching stories within a 3D virtual reality role-playing environment. Given this new medium for story expression, we sought to...

Propositions for Innovative Forms of Digital Interactive Storytelling Based on Narrative Theories and Practices

This paper takes a look at narrative forms as of yet unexplored in the field of digital interactive storytelling, and proposes methods for how they can be used in engaging ways for the user. Although the various Digital Interactive Storytelling (DIS) prototypes available produce several different story genres, they stem from the same classic narrative form. With this paper, we aim to introduce ...

A narrative enquiry of experienced family carers of people with dementia volunteering in a carer supporter programme. Keywords: peer support; volunteer; dementia; carer; narrative analysis

From Debugging to Authoring: Adapting Productivity Tools to Narrative Content Description

Recent progress in Interactive Storytelling has been mostly based on the development of proof-of-concept prototypes, whilst the actual production process for interactive narratives largely remains to be invented. Central to this effort is the concept of authoring, which should determine the relationships between generative technologies underlying Interactive Storytelling engines, and the actual...

KIIDSOnto: An OWL DL Ontology for Narrative Reasoning

The most important problem in Interactive Narrative Environments like computer games or interactive fictions is called “the interaction dilemma” [2], an inevitable conflict between the designer's determinism and the user's freedom. An interactive storytelling systems needs to structure an intensive and meaningful experience at the same time as enabling the right development of a pre-authored pl...