I discuss a collaborative, computer aided approach towards building and exploiting a shared resource that can aid further research into the history and development of narrative, as well as into its phenomenology and logic. The particular example illustrating this approach is a project called CLÉA, short for Collaborative Literature Éxploration and Annotation. CLÉA, a Google Digital Humanities A...

Many concepts have been developed to describe the convergence of media, languages, and formats in contemporary media systems. This article is a theoretical reflection on “transmedia storytelling” from a perspective that integrates semiotics and narratology in the context of media studies. After dealing with the conceptual chaos around transmedia storytelling, the article analyzes how these new ...

Building experimental games offers an alternative methodology for researching and understanding games, beyond what can be understood by playing and studying existing games alone. Through a simultaneous process of research and artmaking in the construction of the interactive drama Façade, new theoretical and design insights into several game studies questions were realized, including the hotly d...

Narrative is one of the oldest creative forms, capable of depicting a wide spectrum of human conditions. However, many existing stories generated by planning-based computational narrative systems are confined to the goal-driven, problem-solving aesthetics. This paper focuses on analogy-based story generation. Informed by narratology and computational analogy, we present an analytical framework ...