hrough the study of two models, the video games Metroid Prime 3 and Bioshock, the present article explores the relations between the game-play experience related to interactive fiction and the kind of narrative construction typical of two of the key science fiction genres: intergalactic conflict and the distopic city. By means of identifying two complementary dimensions that shape gaming experi...

Interactive stories face a famous “authorial bottleneck.” Two existing approaches to this problem are story management systems, such as drama managers, and interactive narrative generators. Existing work leverages well-understood qualities of linear narrative such as suspense to generate content, but interactivity brings new capacities, like the ability to make a player experience regret. These...

Most popular models of narratives and narrative analyses have been drawn on native stories, yet EFL learners’ narratives have not received due narrative analysis. The present study then aims at scrutinizing the structure of personal English stories as told by EFL learners. To this aim, three hundred narratives were collected through classroom discussions and interviews. Qualitative analysis met...

In this children’s story, Salmon Rushdie aptly portents a world in which narrative is no longer defined by the single, perfectly articulated linear strand but rather by a rich web of interconnected strands of story that float together in a “tapestry of breathtaking complexity.” For the past 25 years, many researchers, artists and designers have worked to realize a dream of creating complex narr...