Interactive Storytelling

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Using computer games for educational purposes is it fascinating idea that is getting increasingly popular amongst educators, researchers, and developers. From it technical as well as psycho-pedagogical viewpoint, today's educational games are at an early stage. Most products cannot compete with non-educational, commercial games and not with conventional educational software. Research must address fundamental challenges such as methods for convincing learning-game design or individualization of gaming experiences. An important key factor is development costs. To enter the market Successfully requires reducing development costs significantly, however, without reducing gaining or learning quality. In this paper we introduce an approach of using existing methods for educational adaptation and personalization together with ideas of emergent game design.

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We argue that the possibility to generate content into vast areas is a relevant challenge in the area of location based pervasive games. In this paper, we present a game prototype that enables children travelling in the back seat of a car to enjoy a narrated experience where game play combines with the experience of traveling through the road network. The prototype is designed to provide, what we refer to as a believable environment. We sug­gest four design characteristics to provide a persuasive inclusion of a journey into a pervasive game. First, the story should refer to geographical objects with their everyday meaning. Second, the game needs to scale over vast areas. Third, the application should provide sequential storytelling to make it fit with the journey ex­perience, and finally it should provide interaction support where players can engage in gameplay and interact with the computer in various ways at the same time as they are looking out of the car window. We describe how these requirements have been imple­mented in the prototype and present an initial performance test.

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This paper presents the design of an architecture for narrative games with story-puzzles like classic graphic adventures. The system is able to create new short stories in each session, combining a basic set of narrative elements in an emergent way but maintaining coherency with the storyline of previous sessions. As a test-bed of this proposal we use a simple detective game inspired on the famous Cluedo’s characters.

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