This paper discusses the divided nature of games research, and how most of the research effort can be placed in camps located on each side of a sliding, one-dimensional scale. A middle ground is slowly being bridged between these two camps, which is ...

The content of this article is the design of the narrative content of the network virtual museum based on digital media technology. The research method of this article is based on the theory of narratology. It introduces the interactive relationship ...

Moral dilemmas are a staple of narratives in games. Allowing the player to choose and impact a game's story is an important part of enjoying an interactive narrative. Yet when it comes to how we design and test games with moral dilemmas, there is little ...

In the previous studies, I discussed the creativity in IMDJ. I discussed it from the perspective of abduction. In addition, I discussed the role of comfortable communication in the creative situation as well as usual situation. In this paper, I will ...

Narrative-centric analog games ¹ have emerged from a hybridization of genres: they borrow conventions from pen and paper-based role-playing games such as Dungeons and Dragons, as well as the foundations of eurogames and war games. Historically, board ...

In this paper, we evoke first the ubiquity and the importance of the so-called "non-fictional" narrative information. We show then that the usual knowledge representation and ontological techniques have difficulties in finding complete solutions for ...

This paper overviews our approaches towards narrative generation using various literary theories in the field of narratology in the first part and proposes the synthetic use of the following three literary theories in the integrated narrative generation ...

This essay discusses whether the standard narratological duality of syuzhet and fabula applies to narrative hypertext, and concludes that the hypertext writing complicates the use of those dual concepts.

This paper presents a narrative theory of games, building on standard narratology, as a solution to the conundrum that has haunted computer game studies from the start: How to approach software that combines games and stories?

In this paper, after we show basic concepts of our narrative generation system architecture as the engine of new types of digital contents and the attempt of a tentative integrated narrative generation system, we discuss two fundamental mechanisms for ...

Drawing on theories from game-, film-, and theatre studies, this paper explores two primary ways in which 3D computer games deal with stories. As evident in how these games are creatively designed and publically discussed, one of these approaches ...

Drawing on theories from game-, film-, and theatre studies, this paper explores two primary ways in which 3D computer games deal with stories. As evident in how these games are creatively designed and publically discussed, one of these approaches ...

How may historians best express history through computer games__ __ This article suggests that the answer lies in correctly correlating historians' goals for teaching with the capabilities of different kinds of computer games. During the development of ...

As a new research domain matures, it becomes increasingly important for researchers to agree on a shared vocabulary. For researchers in Interactive Digital Storytelling, this is a particular challenge, because researchers come from many different ...

This paper sketches a theory of how readers (or users, or players, or viewers) respond to narratives. Such a theory can be useful for developing evaluation functions to allow for narrative outcomes that have maximum impact at particular times on the ...

The process of plot composition in the context of interactive storytelling is considered from a fourfold perspective, that is, from the syntagmatic, paradigmatic, antithetic, and meronymic relations between the constituent events. These relations are ...

Plot composition is examined here at a logic design level, an intermediate stage that comes next to the conceptual level wherein the intended narrative genre is specified. An abstract data structure is proposed to represent plots, together with an ...

This work discusses a model and an architecture for interactive stories to be displayed on the net, designed for being independent from the specific story represented and suitable to different literary genres. They are the result of a formal approach, ...

The aim of this Artwork & Demo is to present a new mobile social video service and demo platform MoViE that enables users to create mobile narrations and stories using narrative structures. Visitors of the conference will be able to contribute to this ...

The video game industry is the combination of two worlds: technology (IT) and show-biz/media/cultural industries. This paper explores this tension by exposing the shortcomings of the culture economics perspective and its lack of understanding for the ...