Connecting the dots: Quantifying the narrative experience in interactive media

H??kon Jarl Hannesson; Thorbjørn Reimann-Anderse; Paolo Burelli; Luis Emilio Bruni

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-27036-4_18

Connecting the dots: Quantifying the narrative experience in interactive media

H??kon Jarl Hannesson, Thorbjørn Reimann-Anderse, Paolo Burelli, Luis Emilio Bruni

Digital Design

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Abstract

The design of an interactive narrative begins with the choice of a type of story. In this paper I examine the potential of three kinds of plot for active user participation: the epic plot, which focuses on the struggle of the individual to survive in a hostile world, the dramatic plot, which deals with the evolution of a network of human relations, and the epistemic plot, which is propelled by the desire to solve a mystery. I distinguish two basic types of immersionludic and narrative, the latter subdivided into spatial, temporal and emotional variants, and I discuss the ability of the three kinds of plot to generate these various forms of immersion.

Original language	English
Journal	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Pages (from-to)	189-201
Number of pages	13
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27036-4_18
Publication status	Published - 2015

Keywords

Closure
Computer games
Emergent narrative
Experienced narrative
Immersion
Interactive narrative
Narrative research
Narrative transport
Quantifying emergent narrative

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Connecting the dots: Quantifying the narrative experience in interactive media. / Hannesson, H??kon Jarl; Reimann-Anderse, Thorbjørn; Burelli, Paolo et al.

In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 2015, p. 189-201.

Research output: Journal Article or Conference Article in Journal › Conference article › Research › peer-review

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