The Evolution of Story Spaces of Digital Games beyond the Limits of Linearity and Monotonicity

Authors:
Klaus P. Jantke
Affiliations:
Fraunhofer IDMT, Children's Media Department, Erfurt, Germany 99084
Venue:
ICIDS '09 Proceedings of the 2nd Joint International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling: Interactive Storytelling
Year:
2009

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Abstract

The in-depth description of game playing experience needs a suitable terminology which, in turn, shall reflect appropriate concepts. The introduced story space concept is compliant with a variety of recent research endeavors and allows for a lucid representation of phenomena which are crucial to the understanding of ways in which stories may be perceived when playing a digital game. The particular story space evolves over time---the story expands. The process of story unfolding may have a variety of fundamental properties such as, e.g., linearity or monotonicity. The controlled abandonment of linearity and monotonicity, e.g., may be used as a technique of dramaturgical design.