Interactive Storytelling: A Cross-Media Approach to Writing, Producing and Editing with AI [Paperback]

Where to start?

How this volume is organized

1.1 Preliminary definitions

1.1.1 The fascination for interactivity

1.1.2 Digital, virtual, interactive

1.1.3 Interacting, participating, collaborating

1.2 Telling stories through actions

1.2.1 Dramatic media

1.2.2 Actions and events

1.2.3 Dramatic action

1.2.4 Narrative action

1.2.5 Sequence of actions

1.2.6 Generating events

1.3 Last general issues

1.3.1 Author, authorship, control

1.3.2 Characters or stories

1.3.3 The field of investigation

1.3.4 Database, narrative and video contents

1.3.5 Delimiting the field

1.4 A general model of analysis

2.1. What are the units

2.2 The logical relationship between the units

2.3 Organising the Multilinear Project

2.4. What separates the units

2.5. Tagging the units: metadata

2.6 Exercises

2.6.1 The flow chart of dynamic elements

2.6.2 The user actions

3.1 Agents and audience

3.2 Intelligent agents

3.2.1 Planning as improvisation

3.2.2 Planning as directing

3.2.3 Scripting as planning

3.3 Emotions and agents

3.3.1 The ls%