Computers are often used as tools to design, implement, and even visualize a variety of
narrative forms. Many researchers and artists are now further attempting to engage the …

The book is concerned with narrative in digital media that changes according to user input—
Interactive Digital Narrative (IDN). It provides a broad overview of current issues and future …

This volume puts forth an original theoretical framework, the ludonarrative model, for
studying video games which foregrounds the empirical study of the player experience. The …

Serious games, especially educational games, have proliferated in the last decade, with
many proven benefits. However, there are very few methodological proposals for …

In recent years, scholars have theorized about the narrative potential of video games. These
conversations have helped to situate a complex new medium into the parameters of older …

In 2006 and 2010, I published papers in Convergence, which analysed readers' responses
to several interactive narratives: From this research, I formed a set of 'assessment'criteria for …

Abstract The field of Interactive Digital Narrative (IDN) can look back at more than 25 years
of research. Considerable technical advances exist alongside open questions that still need …

Button Portraits is a tangible narrative (TN) that represents queer history using artifacts from
the Gender and Sexuality Collections at Georgia State University. The experience tells the …

Abstract The Advanced Stories Authoring and Presentation System (ASAPS) has been used
to build 60 interactive digital narratives (IDN) so far. The paper briefly discusses several …

Emergent Narrative (EN) affords extensive agency to participants but conflicts with the desire
to guarantee compelling narrative. Recent work presents story sifting, an approach that …