Just as books and films about traumatic events have become part of Western popular
culture, so the theme of trauma and its accompanying tropes have been see** into video …

There is a peculiar method in the area of procedural narrative called emergent narrative:
instead of automatically inventing stories or deploying authored narrative content, a system …

This paper explores the idea of" poetic gameplay": gameplay that is deliberately made
strange, or defamiliarized, to create a poetic effect, drawing attention to the form of the work …

Stories in released games are still based largely on static and predetermined structures,
despite decades of academic work to make them more dynamic. Making game narratives …

Concepts utilizing applied ethics, such as responsible conduct of research (RCR), can prove
difficult to teach due to the complexity of problems faced by researchers and the many …

A life story's ability to evoke the emotion experienced by a protagonist is crucial to its
success. Authors of interactive life stories sometimes strategically alter the interactive …

We present a study that investigates the heretofore unexplored relationship between a
player's sense of her narrative role in an interactive narrative role-playing game and the …

Abstract Structure is key to interactive narrative authoring. It can be perceived at the micro,
meso, and macro levels of navigation, and when presented as common patterns creates a …

Choice poetics is a formalist framework that seeks to concretely describe the impacts
choices have on player experiences within narrative games. Developed in part to support …

Concepts utilizing applied ethics, such as responsible conduct of research (RCR), can prove
difficult to teach due to the complexity of problems faced by researchers and the many …