Interactive Storytelling in Games: Next Steps
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What is a story? What is interactivity? Why are the two so hard to put together? This talk takes a journey into some of the most interesting recent developments in interactive storytelling in games, and looks at my most recent thesis work on coherent emergent stories.
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Interactive Storytelling in Games: Next Steps
- 1. Interactive Storytelling in Games: Next Steps Gail Carmichael www.gailcarmichael.com
- 2. What is a Story?
- 3. ACTORS perform actions THE WORLD changes EVENTS relate to each other
- 4. STORIES: About people, not things conflict
- 7. Game + Story: Why is it Hard?
- 9. “Divergence from a story's path is likely to make for a less satisfying story; restricting a player's freedom of action is likely to make for a less satisfying game.” Greg Costikyan
- 10. What should we do?
- 21. Sullivan, Anne. The Grail Framework: Making stories playable on three levels in CRPGS. PhD Thesis, 2012.
- 40. Complete freedom? No freedom? Somewhere in the middle.
- 44. 1 2 3 6 4 5
- 45. 1 2 3 6 4 5 Example: Player chosen as hero to stop threat of a nearby enemy
- 46. 1 2 3 6 4 5
- 47. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Example: Example: Learn that nobody has dared face this enemy before Hero previously acquired his weapon and is too scared to use it
- 48. Satellite Scenes Available based on player action. Allow player to choose consumption. Dynamically modified to fit story.
- 54. Scene state: used to tag scene with info about how it functions in the story
- 55. Rules to determine availability of scene
- 56. Collection of quantifiable story elements used to calculate scores for scene nodes
- 61. Max of all scores for quantifiable story elements in a category (e.g. max theme relevance), multiplied by desire value
- 66. Result: A strong core story with additional flexible but relevant nodes that react to gameplay. In other words, a coherent emergent story.
- 67. Want to know more? Foundations of Digital Games (April 2014)
- 69. Books - Andrew Glassner’s Interactive Storytelling: Techniques for the 21st Century - Chris Crawford’s Chris Crawford on Interactive Storytelling - Josiah Lebowitz and Chris Klug’s Interactive Storytelling for Games - Mieke Bal’s Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative Other - Greg Costikyan’s Games, Storytelling, and Breaking the String -Pohjola M. 2004. “Autonomous Identities: Immersion as a Tool for Exploring, Empowering and Emancipating Identities” in Montola M. and Stenros J. (eds.). Beyond Role and Play: tools, toys and theory for harnessing the imagination. Ropecon ry, Helsinki, 81-96. -Anne M. Sullivan, THE GRAIL FRAMEWORK: MAKING STORIES PLAYABLE ON THREE LEVELS IN CRPGS. (PhD thesis)