Narrative Designer: Fabulator Ludus

By Stephen E. Dinehart IV

A story can change what someone believes. Play can change what they believe is possible.

In this 20th Anniversary year of the Narrative Designer's creation, the third edition of Narrative Designer Fabulator Ludus, Stephen E. Dinehart IV explores the art beneath interactive narrative design: creating experiences people enter, inhabit, and carry forward.

At its center stands the Fabulator Ludus, the player-teller. We play to discover. We tell to share what happened. Each telling changes the conditions of the next encounter. From a honeybee's dance to a child inventing a world, from digital games to immersive places, experience becomes something others can live.

Drawing on decades of practice, Dinehart connects perception, dramatic conflict, worldbuilding, and transmedial play with a deeper inquiry into memory, belonging, and the stories we inherit. This anniversary edition brings that inquiry home to the living exchange between teller and listener, parent and child, imagination and the ground beneath our feet.

For designers, artists, writers, and anyone building worlds for others to enter, Narrative Designer offers a language for turning participation into meaning.

Someone has to fly the path and return to dance it.

The hive needs you

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1985672421
• ISBN13: 9781985672420
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 106 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"