The document discusses interactive storytelling, focusing on the challenges of combining gameplay with narrative in games. It highlights the importance of player choices and their impacts on story satisfaction, as well as various types of player experiences. Additionally, it references several sources and theorists in the field of interactive storytelling.

1. Interactive Storytelling
Gail Carmichael
www.gailcarmichael.com

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcweo19I9wM

3. The Big Question
CAN WE CREATE
THE HOLODECK?

4. What is a Story?

5. ACTORS
perform actions
THE WORLD
changes
EVENTS
relate to each other

6. STORIES:
About people, not things
conflict

7. Interactivity

8. Understand
Two or more each other
agents
Respond
properly

9. Hey! Games are interactive!

10. What is your favourite
game that has a story?
Story choice?
Gameplay?

11. Game + Story:
Why is it Hard?

12. STORIES: Games:
Linear Non-Linear

13. “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

14. CHOICE OF PLAYER
versus
CHOICE OF CHARACTER

15. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MByLJ3mseBU

16. Josiah Lebowitz and Chris Klug

17. TYPES OF PLAYERS
Audience
Performer
Immersionist

18. No preference
Interactive Traditional Storytelling
No story
Highly Player Driven
Storytelling
Branching Path Storytelling
Multiple-Ending Storytelling
Josiah Lebowitz and Chris Klug

19. Josiah Lebowitz and Chris Klug

20. What should we do?

21. …puzzle➭story ➭puzzle ➭story…

23. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMzmnwWK0dY

24. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqkJuSV-23U

25. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POjkfLiyWd8

26. Creativity
>
Technology

28. label family:
scene bg beach2
with dissolve
"It wasn't long before Mary broke the silence, by
asking me a question."
show mary dark smiling
with dissolve
m "I told you a little about my family... but I
haven't asked you about yours yet. What's your family
like?"
p "When I'm on the island here, I live with my aunt
and uncle, but back home, I live with my mother, father,
and sister."
m "A sister? Is she older or younger?"
Ren’Py

29. Fabula

30. The Big Question
CAN WE CREATE
THE HOLODECK?

31. Gail Carmichael
PhD Student, Carleton University
www.gailcarmichael.com

32. 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.
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