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International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling

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Multi-user Interactive Drama: The Macro View - Three Structural Layers

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Narrative is generally crafted around a Three Act structure that dates back to Aristotle’s Poetics. This paper asks to what extent the beginning, middle and end of a linear story remain relevant in interactive environments where drama can result as much from the interplay of rules and multi user participation. In this context drama appears to build through short, yet ongoing cycles of variable engagement. This allows for an alternative, structural approach to the application of Aristotle’s Poetics in multi-user interactive environments involving three component layers, rather than three linear acts: The Source Drama, The User Drama and The Multi Drama.

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  1. Dept. of MMCCS, Macquarie University, Building Y3A, NSW, Australia

    Bronwin Patrickson

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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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Patrickson, B. (2011). Multi-user Interactive Drama: The Macro View - Three Structural Layers. 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_38

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