Computers as Theatre
Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace
Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace
Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design
Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design
Improvisation and Performance as Models for Interacting with Stories
ICIDS '08 Proceedings of the 1st Joint International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling: Interactive Storytelling
Bottoms up: improvisational micro-agents
Proceedings of the Intelligent Narrative Technologies III Workshop
Shared mental models in improvisational performance
Proceedings of the Intelligent Narrative Technologies III Workshop
The expressive space of IDS-as-Art
ICIDS'12 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Interactive Storytelling
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It is common within the interactive narrative research community to conflate interaction with changing the outcome of a story. In this paper we argue that reimagining interaction as participation in a story opens up an important new design space for digital narratives: one which emphasizes the readerly pleasure of transforming into a character rather than the authorial pleasure of rewriting the events of the story. We draw on theories of method acting and performance as a model for participating within a story and provide examples from several recent games that support this type of narrative.