Narrative Representations and Casuality in Character-Based Interactive Storytelling

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Abstract

In this paper we describe a fully implemented prototype for interactive storytelling using the UnrealTM engine. Using a sit-com like scenario as an example of how the dynamic interactions between characters and/or the user dramatise the emerging story. We present how all possible narrative variations are formalised using Hierarchical Task Networks. However, within interactive narrative representation, matters arise from the conjunction of different sorts of causality: physical, psychological and narrative.

Artists / Authors

• Marc Cavazza, University of Teesside, United Kingdom

Date(s)

• September 22, 2001

Organizer

MARS Exploratory Media Lab under the patronage of Edelgard Bulmahn, German Federal Minister for Education and Research

Location

Fraunhofer Institute for Media Communication, Sankt Augustin, Germany

Submission

, Mar 5, 2004

Category

• Lecture

Keywords

• Topics:
  • nonlinear narration

Additions to Keyword List

• Interactive storytelling