Understanding Interactive Digital Narrative
Immersive Expressions for a Complex Time
- 192 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
This remarkably clearly written and timely critical evaluation of core issues in the study and application of interactive digital narrative (IDN) untangles the range of theories and arguments that have developed around IDN over the past three decades.
Looking back over the past 30 years of theorizing around interactivity, storytelling, and the digital across the fields of game design/game studies, media studies, and narratology, as well as interactive documentary and other emerging forms, this text offers important and insightful correctives to common misunderstandings that pervade the field. This book also changes the perspective on IDN by introducing a comprehensive conceptual framework influenced by cybernetics and cognitive narratology, addressing limitations of perspectives originally developed for legacy media forms. Applying its framework, the book analyzes successful works and lays out concrete design advice, providing instructors, students, and practitioners with a more precise and specific understanding of IDN.
This will be essential reading for courses in interactive narrative, interactive storytelling, and game writing, as well as digital media more generally.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- Foreword
- Part 1 Introduction: Characteristics and challenges of interactive digital narrative
- Part 2 Conceptual Challenges for IDN: Assessing narrative fundamentalism and narrative indifference
- Part 3 SPP: A model and analytical framework for IDN
- Part 4 IDN Design
- Part 5 Where to Go from Here: Advocacy, opportunities, and future work
- Index