Interactive Storytelling for Video Games

A Player-Centered Approach to Creating Memorable Characters and Stories

Josiah Lebowitz, Chris Klug (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

332 Seiten

2011
Focal Press (Verlag)
978-0-240-81717-0 (ISBN)

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As technology advances, the push for highly interactive player-driven stories in video games has intensified. This book offers proven techniques and case studies from real-world games to help writers develop compelling structure, characters, player preferences and more.

What really makes a video game story interactive?
What's the best way to create an interactive story?
How much control should players be given?
Do they really want that control in the first place?
Do they even know what they want-or are their stated desires at odds with the unconscious preferences?

All of these questions and more are examined in this definitive book on interactive storytelling for video games. You'll get detailed descriptions of all major types of interactive stories, case studies of popular games (including Bioshock, Fallout 3, Final Fantasy XIII, Heavy Rain, and Metal Gear Solid), and how players interact with them, and an in-depth analysis of the results of a national survey on player storytelling preferences in games. You'll get the expert advice you need to generate compelling and original game concepts and narratives.With Interactive Storytelling for Video Games, you'll:

Josiah Lebowitz

Chapter 1 Game Stories, Interactivity, and What Players Want; Chapter 2 A Brief History of Storytelling in Games; Chapter 3 The Hero’s Journey and the Structure of Game Stories; Chapter 4 The Story and the Characters; Chapter 5 Making Stories Emotional; Chapter 6 Defining Interactive and Player-Driven Storytelling; Chapter 7 Fully Traditional and Interactive Traditional Stories; Chapter 8 Multiple-Ending Stories; Chapter 9 Branching Path Stories; Chapter 10 Open-Ended Stories; Chapter 11 Fully Player-Driven Stories; Chapter 12 The Argument for the Supremacy of Player-Driven Storytelling; Chapter 13 The Argument Against the Supremacy of Player-Driven Storytelling; Chapter 14 What Players Really Want: The Most Important Issue; Chapter 15 The Future of Storytelling in Games;

Erscheint lt. Verlag	5.4.2011
Zusatzinfo	100 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	191 x 235 mm
Gewicht	1300 g
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Grafik / Design
Themenwelt	Informatik ► Software Entwicklung ► Spieleprogrammierung
ISBN-10	0-240-81717-6 / 0240817176
ISBN-13	978-0-240-81717-0 / 9780240817170
Zustand	Neuware