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Towards minimalism and expressiveness in interactive drama

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Nicolas Szilas,

Monica AxelradAuthors Info & Claims

DIMEA '08: Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Digital Interactive Media in Entertainment and Arts

Pages 385 - 392

https://doi.org/10.1145/1413634.1413703

Published: 10 September 2008 Publication History

Abstract

Having found it difficult for authors to be creative with current interactive drama systems, we propose an alternative author-centered approach allowing authors of nonlinear media to express themselves easily and smoothly.

At the level of character animation, a bottleneck in Interactive Drama, our idea is to build authoring tools and author-centered engines for interactive drama that make it possible for an author to create virtual worlds, characters and animation instantly. To achieve this goal, a minimalist design for each of those features is proposed. A Use Case is described to better illustrate the approach.

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Szilas NSpierling U(2023)Authoring Issues in Interdisciplinary Research TeamsThe Authoring Problem10.1007/978-3-031-05214-9_18(287-302)Online publication date: 2-Jan-2023
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05214-9_18
Muller V(2011)An Open Source Architecture for Building Interactive DramasProceedings of the 2011 Brazilian Symposium on Games and Digital Entertainment10.1109/SBGAMES.2011.31(89-100)Online publication date: 7-Nov-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/SBGAMES.2011.31

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DIMEA '08: Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Digital Interactive Media in Entertainment and Arts

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DOI:10.1145/1413634

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Szilas NSpierling U(2023)Authoring Issues in Interdisciplinary Research TeamsThe Authoring Problem10.1007/978-3-031-05214-9_18(287-302)Online publication date: 2-Jan-2023
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05214-9_18
Muller V(2011)An Open Source Architecture for Building Interactive DramasProceedings of the 2011 Brazilian Symposium on Games and Digital Entertainment10.1109/SBGAMES.2011.31(89-100)Online publication date: 7-Nov-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/SBGAMES.2011.31

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