TY - GEN
T1 - Table-top gaming narratology for digital interactive storytelling
AU - Van Velsen, Martin
AU - Williams, Josh
AU - Verhulsdonck, Gustav
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - In the current environment of digital games and immersive role playing systems, we often overlook previous methods of conveying and experiencing, interactive narrative-based entertainment. We present a fresh perspective on interactive digital storytelling systems based on table-top role playing games. Table-top games offer players the ability to negotiate and determine outcomes of a game with a referee. The nature of table-top gaming is such that players evolve, grow and maintain a rule set that represents an imaginary world. As such this form of gameplay provides a unique opportunity to study complex interactive storytelling structures under controlled circumstances. Using table-top role playing games as a model, we propose terminology and concepts that are different from the traditional literary or dramaturgical perspectives normally applied to interactive narrative systems.
AB - In the current environment of digital games and immersive role playing systems, we often overlook previous methods of conveying and experiencing, interactive narrative-based entertainment. We present a fresh perspective on interactive digital storytelling systems based on table-top role playing games. Table-top games offer players the ability to negotiate and determine outcomes of a game with a referee. The nature of table-top gaming is such that players evolve, grow and maintain a rule set that represents an imaginary world. As such this form of gameplay provides a unique opportunity to study complex interactive storytelling structures under controlled circumstances. Using table-top role playing games as a model, we propose terminology and concepts that are different from the traditional literary or dramaturgical perspectives normally applied to interactive narrative systems.
KW - AI
KW - Digital storytelling
KW - Interactive narrative
KW - Table-top
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=72149107121&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-10643-9_15
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-10643-9_15
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:72149107121
SN - 3642106420
SN - 9783642106422
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 109
EP - 120
BT - Interactive Storytelling - Second Joint International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2009, Proceedings
T2 - 2nd Joint International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2009
Y2 - 9 December 2009 through 11 December 2009
ER -