The interactive multimedia story

Physically interactive story environments

Most interactive stories, such as hypertext narratives and interactive movies achieve an interactive “feel” by allowing the user to choose among multiple story paths. In this paper we discuss physically interactive environments with narrative structure in which the ability to choose among multiple story lines is replaced with having users, first, interact with the story characters in small, loc...

The Pond: Interactive Multimedia Installation

Interactive Multimedia on the Web

Introduction 1 What Exactly is Interactive Multimedia? 1 Multimedia Network Technologies 1 Characteristics of Multimedia Traffic 1 Standards for Multimedia Communications 2 Creating Interactive Multimedia Web Pages 3 Tools, Services, and Applications 4 Multimedia Portals 4 Interactive E-Learning Tools and Distance Learning Applications 5 Media-Sharing Applications 5 Multiplayer Web Games 7 Web ...

Interactive Story Writing Using ScriptEase

ScriptEase is a tool for writing interactive stories in roleplaying games that frees the author from doing explicit computer programming. A story is created by selecting and customizing patterns for the plot, encounters, behaviors and conversations. It has been implemented as a front end to BioWare's Neverwinter Nights game. We will describe our experiences using ScriptEase as part of a high sc...

Story Representation and Interactive Drama

When building a story-intensive game, there is always the question of how much freedom to give the player. Give the player too little, and he may feel constrained and disconnected from the character he is controlling. Give him too much freedom, and the progression of the story may lag or stop altogether. The field of interactive drama attempts to strike a balance between interaction and authors...