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StoryJam: Supporting Collective Storytelling with Game Mechanics

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Collective storytelling is a narrative form that has cultural, cognitive, and organizational applications. Built on existing research in group collaboration, this short paper examines how certain game mechanics can be used to encourage and structure collaboration in StoryJam, a multi-player online game for collective storytelling.

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  1. Digital Media, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, 19104

    Yujie Zhu & Jichen Zhu

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  1. Yujie Zhu
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  1. Department of Telecommunications, University of Georg, 30602, Athens, GA, USA

    Hartmut Koenitz

  2. Faculty of Communications, Istanbul Bilgi University, Eyub, 34060, Istanbul, Turkey

    Tonguc Ibrahim Sezen

  3. School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University, 47405, Bloomington, IN, USA

    Gabriele Ferri

  4. School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

    Mads Haahr

  5. Faculty of Communications, Istanbul University, Beyazit, 34452, Istanbul, Turkey

    Digdem Sezen

  6. Bahc̨es̨ehir University, Karaköy, 34425, Istanbul, Turkey

    Güven C̨atak

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Zhu, Y., Zhu, J. (2013). StoryJam: Supporting Collective Storytelling with Game Mechanics. In: Koenitz, H., Sezen, T.I., Ferri, G., Haahr, M., Sezen, D., C̨atak, G. (eds) Interactive Storytelling. ICIDS 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8230. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02756-2_34

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