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Framing Storytelling with Games

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Interactive Storytelling (ICIDS 2011)

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The purpose of this article is to aid the design of support tools for storytelling games, and to ease the analysis and understanding of storytelling games by expanding the hitherto available framing. Based on interviews with players, it outlines frames in storytelling games, expands the concept and suggests how this can be used in designs with examples from current and future storytelling support tools.

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  1. The Interactive Institute and Gothenburg University, Lindholmsplatsen 1, 417 56, Gothenburg, Sweden

    Karl Bergström

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  1. Cognitive Science Department, Renselear Polytechnic Institute, Carnegie 311, 110 8 th Street, 12180, Troy, NY, USA

    Mei Si

  2. Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, T6G 2E8, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

    David Thue

  3. Laboratory for Human-Centered Multimedia, Instituti for Informatik, Augsburg University, Universitaetsstr. 6a, 86159, Augsburg, Germany

    Elisabeth André

  4. Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University, 890 Oval Drive, 27695-8206,, Raleigh, NC, USA

    James C. Lester

  5. School of Interactive Arts and Technology ( SIAT), Simon Fraser University, V3T 0A3, Surrey, BC, Canada

    Theresa Jean Tanenbaum

  6. Electronic Arts, 4330 Sanderson Way, V5G 4X1, Burnaby, BC, Canada

    Veronica Zammitto

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Bergström, K. (2011). Framing Storytelling with Games. In: Si, M., Thue, D., André, E., Lester, J.C., Tanenbaum, T.J., Zammitto, V. (eds) Interactive Storytelling. ICIDS 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7069. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25289-1_19

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