This talk focuses on the narrative experience of Myst across the games, novels and comic. It also looks at the Sandman comics and Ultima Online and MitterNachtSpiel. Throughout idea of how stories travel across mediums is explored.

1. stories in between
a presentation
drew davidson

2. stories and mediums
across and between
written word
sequential art
hypermedia

3. objects of study
myst
hypermedia, novels, comic
sandman
ultima online
mitternachtspiel

4. storytelling
interactivity
mediums
agency
exploration

5. myst

6. myst story grand

7. myst novels
the book of atrus
the book of ti’ana
the book of d’ni

8. myst comic
the book of the black ships

9. sandman
preludes and nocturnes brief lives
the doll’s house world’s end
dream country the kindly ones
season of mists the wake
a game of you final sandmen
fables and reflections endless

10. myst hypermedia
myst, riven

11. ultima online

12. mitternachtspiel

13. new storytelling
agency
interactivity
across media
what stories are and can be

14. thanks!
questions?