This volume puts forth an original theoretical framework, the ludonarrative model, for
studying video games which foregrounds the empirical study of the player experience. The …

Narrative design combines game design and game writing. It uses the mechanics of game
design to create a dramatically compelling story to the game player. In a broader sense …

In narrative game design and related practices, the role and function of narrative models is
described as predominantly pragmatic. However, we see that many interactive digital …

Differently from traditional narratives, which focus on the output, ie the oral or written text,
interactive digital narratives provide a more holistic view of the storytelling process …

We provide the first extensive account of an unknown story generator that was developed by
linguist Joseph E. Grimes in the early 1960s. A pioneering system, it was the first to take a …

In this paper, we intend to construct an original integration between the ontology and
hermeneutics of video games proposed in the field of game studies and the post-structuralist …

Sounding Emerging Media details a practice-based approach to sonic art and
electroacoustic composition, drawing on methodologies inspired by the production of …

The continued and extensive studies of Aristotle (Laurel 1991; Kallay 2010) in the digital age
suggest there is still a close relationship between drama and writing for the screen …

Computational systems, by being procedural and interactive, encompass new radical
possibilities and augment and extend the way we tell stories. The Interactive Digital …

The inherent conflict between the predetermined nature of narrative and the freedom that
interactivity allows for, has been a major point of discussion in the field of interactive …