Interactive narratives
Introduction
This course is about interactive narratives. It presupposes knowledge
of narratology corresponding to the course Narratology 1-20p. The focus
will be on psychological and cognitive aspects of comprehension and
experience of interactive narratives.
The course is being put together by myself for my PhD studies with the purpose
of studying interactive narratives while no existing course is
available.
All info is still very tentative. Check back later!
Course contents
Not yet decided.
Included will probably be a project of applying a model for standard
narratives onto an interactive narrative.
Seminar
I attended a seminar at Centre for User Oriented IT design (CID), Nada KTH on Oct. 22 called
Berättande och dramatisk struktur i en digital miljö.
Summary.
Literature (potential)
Some articles from the
Oz project at Carnegie Mellon University.
Janet H Murray, Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative
in Cyberspace, Free Press, 1997.
Aarseth, Espen J.
Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature, The Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1997.
(See also this list of
books)
(At the Erazmatazz Library, there are some articles related to
interactive storytelling and computer game design)
Links
Janet
Murray vs Sven Birkets about interactive narratives as art, from HotWired
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Last updated Feb. 2, 1998 by Pierre Gander.