Interactive Narrative: Theory and Practice

Table of Contents

• Introduction

• Part 1: Interactive

• Media
• Passive and Active Media
• Interactivity
• Interactive Media
• Concepts of Interactivity
• Interactivity in the Bigger Picture
• Design
• Agency
• Rules and Constraints
• Emergence
• Immersion
• Anthropomorphism
• Theory of Interactive Systems
• The Willing Suspension of Freedom
• Listening, Thinking, and Speaking
• Fuzzy Listening Systems

• Part 2: Narrative

• Defining Narrative
• Concepts of Narrative
• Elements of Story
• Elements of Discourse
• Focalization
• Agents and Characters
• Narrative Theory
• Common Structure
• Possibility and The Flying Wedge
• Genre Theory

• Part 3: Interactive Narrative

• Defining Interactive Narrative
• Concepts of Interactive Narrative
• Interactive Story
• Interactive Discourse
• Interactions Between Story and Discourse
• Listening and Speaking In Interactive Narrative
• Co-Authorship
• The Willing Suspension of Freedom Revisited
• Interactive Narrative and Other Media
• Games v. Interactive Narrative
• Hypertext Fiction v. Interactive Narrative
• Interactive Television v. Interactive Narrative
• The Binding Force
• Creating Interactive Narrative

• Exploring the Fringes

• Works Cited