Morals play an important role in why storytelling developed, and help provide stories with structure. We describe a storytelling system which generates short stories that convey one of six common morals identified in Aesop’s fables. Morals are represented in terms of patterns of character emotions that arise during the course of a story. To evaluate the system’s effectiveness, we compare system...

Interactive Storytelling technologies have attracted significant interest in the field of simulation and serious gaming for their potential to provide a principled approach to improve user engagement in training scenarios. In this paper, we explore the use of Interactive Storytelling to support Narrative Medicine as a reflective practice. We describe a workflow for the generation of virtual nar...

In this paper virtual storytelling is considered as narrative potential – the integration of agency and narrative. To facilitate this, an aesthetics of VEs is introduced as the context for the analysis of a popular computer role playing game. The game is analysed in terms of Perceptual Opportunities – a content model for virtual environments. From this analysis some inferences are drawn concern...

Multi-player Role-Playing Games form rare examples of interactive, collaborative storytelling systems, especially within the tabletop format. However, despite recent advances in the theory and general knowledge of the field, models of the operation of the storytelling process in multi-player nondigital role-playing games remains relatively unspecific. In this paper, a critical synthesis of the ...

The development of digital journalism, an important area of storytelling, has focused primarily on incorporating interactive multimedia components to traditional linear news stories. In this paper, we propose a new approach that places central focus on text, the core of journalism, based on insights from fictional interactive digital storytelling. Drawing upon the convention of interactive fict...

$%675$&7 We describe an approach to a new authoring method for interactive storytelling. After positioning digital storytelling in a theoretical context to literature, we consider the author’s view of the tools to be used and introduce a coherent environment that does not restrict the creative process and lets the author feel comfortable, leading him to create well-narrated, interactive non-lin...

CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. Aim of the review 3. What are adventure games? 4. History and classification of adventure games 5. Adventure games today 6. Games as a form of literacy 7. Embedding elements of storytelling within games 8. Games for learning 9. Summary and main conclusions 10. Points to consider when designing game authoring tools for the development of storytelling 11. Glossary of k...

The process of identifying techniques for fostering creativity, and applying these theoretical constructs in real-world educational activities, is, by nature, multifaceted and not straightforward, pertaining to several fields such as cognitive theory and psychology. Furthermore, the quantification of the impact of different activities on creativity is a challenging and not yet thoroughly invest...

Alibaba Group is China’s largest e-commerce company and leader in e-business infographic publishing. This study attempts to understand how Alibaba’s infographics use texts, visual aids, and statistical graphics to facilitate understanding of their contents. A quantitative content analysis of its 460 infographics suggests that while Alibaba’s content preference aligns with its mission to educati...

This article illuminates the transmedia storytelling techniques in The Walking Dead comic book and video game. Telltale Games’ The Walking Dead localizes itself within the comic book world of The Walking Dead by acting as a transmedia storytelling device and using intertextuality comics to assist game players with meaning-making. By participating in the game, Telltale rewards players with addit...