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Propositions for Innovative Forms of Digital Interactive Storytelling Based on Narrative Theories and Practices

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This paper takes a look at narrative forms as of yet unexplored in the field of digital interactive storytelling, and proposes methods for how they can be used in engaging ways for the user. Digital Interactive Storytelling, while nearly two decades old as a field of research, has yet to produce a tool capable of producing masses of narratively interesting and engaging pieces for the end user. Although the various prototypes available produce several different story genres, they stem from the same classic narrative form. With this paper, we aim to introduce narrative techniques that have successfully been used in cinema, literature and the gaming world, and show how they can be adapted to DIS. We believe that by presenting these techniques authors can gain a better understanding of how to use existing systems.

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    Nicolas Szilas, Monica Axelrad & Urs Richle

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  1. Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China

    Zhigeng Pan

  2. National University of Singapore, Singapore

    Adrian David Cheok

  3. University of Education, Weingarten, Germany

    Wolfgang Müller

  4. Athabasca University, AB, Canada

    Maiga Chang

  5. Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

    Mingmin Zhang

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Szilas, N., Axelrad, M., Richle, U. (2012). Propositions for Innovative Forms of Digital Interactive Storytelling Based on Narrative Theories and Practices. In: Pan, Z., Cheok, A.D., Müller, W., Chang, M., Zhang, M. (eds) Transactions on Edutainment VII. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7145. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29050-3_15

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