Interactive Digital Narrative: History, Theory and Practice

Book Overview

The book is concerned with narrative in digital media that changes according to user input--Interactive Digital Narrative (IDN). It provides a broad overview of current issues and future directions in this multi-disciplinary field that includes humanities-based and computational perspectives. It assembles the voices of leading researchers and practitioners like Janet Murray, Marie-Laure Ryan, Scott Rettberg and Martin Rieser. In three sections, it covers history, theoretical perspectives and varieties of practice including narrative game design, with a special focus on changes in the power relationship between audience and author enabled by interactivity. After discussing the historical development of diverse forms, the book presents theoretical standpoints including a semiotic perspective, a proposal for a specific theoretical framework and an inquiry into the role of artificial intelligence. Finally, it analyses varieties of current practice from digital poetry to location-based applications, artistic experiments and expanded remakes of older narrative game titles.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138782394
• ISBN13: 9781138782396
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"