Digital Storytelling A Creator's Guide to Interactive Entertainment

The new digital technologies are offering a multitude of fresh creative possibilities to storytellers. These new kinds of stories can be highly effective vehicles not only for entertainment purposes, but also for teaching, informing, promoting and training. But digital storytelling adds something new and challenging to narrative: interactivity. Interactivity impacts on everything from character design to structure to dialogue. To successfully creative narratives for the new media, it is imperative to know how to handle interactivity and how to fully involve the audience in the unfolding of the story. This book offers valuable insights into this process, giving concrete guidelines and examples drawn from cutting edge projects in over a dozen forms of interactive storytelling. Learn to create content for these interactive vehicles: massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs), videogames, immersive multiple-site Web fictions, pervasive games, smart toys, DVDs, kiosks, entertainment on wireless devices (phones, PDAs, etc.) interactive movies, interactive TV, and virtual reality simulations. Learn by example from case studies of ground-breaking projects applicable to a variety of interactive media. Gain insight from engaging behind-the-scenes anecdotes from successful digital media practitioners. Understand the how & why of interactive storytelling with guidelines for developing characters, structures, and content specifically for digital entertainment.Miller, Carolyn Handler is the author of 'Digital Storytelling A Creator's Guide to Interactive Entertainment', published 2004 under ISBN 9780240805108 and ISBN 0240805100.