Forest Paths Method For Narrative Design

Author : Alexander Swords
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798600462137

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Forest Paths Method for Narrative Design by Alexander Swords Pdf

Narrative design is not glamorous. Well, it can be, but often it's about spreadsheets and flowcharts. It's about organising your ideas and managing the process so your narrative lands squarely on your design pillars from the beginning, after 50 iterations and over years of development. The Forest Paths Method of Narrative Design won't tell you whether your ideas are good or bad, but you don't really need that. You need a process built on solid dramatic theory that helps you ask yourself and your team all the right questions to create the game that you want to make for the audience you're making it for. This guide will take you through that process and show you how to organise a cohesive narrative design in a way your whole team can understand, and much more:- Quickly test new game ideas- Develop a whole narrative design before any production- Track changes throughout production- Collaborate and communicate narrative design to your team- Understand the impact of decisions before you make them- Analyse your own and other titles to understand their strengths and weaknesses- Match your narrative design with other considerations like marketing, streamers, accessibility and cultural sensitivities- Use genre narrative design patterns to kickstart the narrative design process of certain types of games- Communicate your narrative design intentions to other stakeholdersCreator Alexander Swords is an experienced narrative specialist who has worked across television, film, live performance and games. He's worked on the genre-busting indie titles All Walls Must Fall, Dead Static Drive and Totem Teller and holds bachelor's degrees in film and television and business, as well as a master's in arts management.Perfect for students and those just starting out, wanting to transfer over from another medium like film and tv, or experienced practitioners interested in improving their methods. Simple, but deep - you can read it in an afternoon and start using it straight away.

Author : Alex Mitchell,Mirjam Vosmeer
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-03
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030923006

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Interactive Storytelling by Alex Mitchell,Mirjam Vosmeer Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2021, held in Tallinn, Estonia, in December 2021. The 18 full papers and 17 short papers, presented together with 17 posters and demos, were carefully reviewed and selected from 99 submissions. The papers are categorized into the following topical sub-headings: Narrative Systems; Interactive Narrative Theory; Interactive Narrative Impact and Application; and the Interactive Narrative Research Discipline and Contemporary Practice.

Author : Alexander Swords
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0648759601

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Forest Paths Method for Narrative Design by Alexander Swords Pdf

Author : José Manuel Ferrández Vicente
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031611407

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Artificial Intelligence for Neuroscience and Emotional Systems by José Manuel Ferrández Vicente Pdf

Author : Michael Breault
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-22
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780429577468

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Narrative Design by Michael Breault Pdf

Narrative designers and game designers are critical to the development of digital and analog games. This book provides a detailed look at the work writers and designers perform every day on game development projects. It includes practical advice on how to break into the game industry as a writer or game designer. Readers can use the templates and detailed instructions provided here to create lively portfolios that will help open the door to jobs in the game industry. Key features of this book: • An intimate look at the workings of AAA game development from someone who has spent decades embedded on teams at well-known companies. • An insider’s look at the game industry, including advice on breaking into the industry. • Detailed instructions for creating a portfolio to demonstrate narrative design and game design skills to prospective employers. • Lessons and exercises to help students develop narrative design and game design skills. • A how-to guide for college instructors teaching classes in narrative design and game design. Detailed assignments and syllabi are included. Author Bio: Michael Breault is a 35-year industry veteran who has contributed his writing and game design skills to over 130 published games. He currently teaches narrative design and game design courses at Webster University in St. Louis. The courses he creates and teaches are based on the tasks narrative designers and game designers undertake every day while developing games. These classes provide his students with a real-world view of the work they will be doing as writers and designers in the game industry.

Author : Julian Jaynes
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2000-08-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780547527543

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The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes Pdf

National Book Award Finalist: “This man’s ideas may be the most influential, not to say controversial, of the second half of the twentieth century.”—Columbus Dispatch At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary scientific paradigm extend into virtually every aspect of our psychology, our history and culture, our religion—and indeed our future. “Don’t be put off by the academic title of Julian Jaynes’s The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. Its prose is always lucid and often lyrical…he unfolds his case with the utmost intellectual rigor.”—The New York Times “When Julian Jaynes . . . speculates that until late in the twentieth millennium BC men had no consciousness but were automatically obeying the voices of the gods, we are astounded but compelled to follow this remarkable thesis.”—John Updike, The New Yorker “He is as startling as Freud was in The Interpretation of Dreams, and Jaynes is equally as adept at forcing a new view of known human behavior.”—American Journal of Psychiatry

Author : Hartmut Koenitz,Gabriele Ferri,Mads Haahr,Diğdem Sezen,Tonguç İbrahim Sezen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317668671

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Interactive Digital Narrative by Hartmut Koenitz,Gabriele Ferri,Mads Haahr,Diğdem Sezen,Tonguç İbrahim Sezen Pdf

The book is concerned with narrative in digital media that changes according to user input—Interactive Digital Narrative (IDN). It provides a broad overview of current issues and future directions in this multi-disciplinary field that includes humanities-based and computational perspectives. It assembles the voices of leading researchers and practitioners like Janet Murray, Marie-Laure Ryan, Scott Rettberg and Martin Rieser. In three sections, it covers history, theoretical perspectives and varieties of practice including narrative game design, with a special focus on changes in the power relationship between audience and author enabled by interactivity. After discussing the historical development of diverse forms, the book presents theoretical standpoints including a semiotic perspective, a proposal for a specific theoretical framework and an inquiry into the role of artificial intelligence. Finally, it analyses varieties of current practice from digital poetry to location-based applications, artistic experiments and expanded remakes of older narrative game titles.

Author : Tobias Heussner
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-18
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781351014373

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The Advanced Game Narrative Toolbox by Tobias Heussner Pdf

The Advanced Game Narrative Toolbox continues where the Game Narrative Toolbox ended. While the later covered the basics of writing for games, the Advanced Game Narrative Toolbox will cover techniques for the intermediate and professional writer. The book will cover topics such as how to adapt a novel to a game, how to revive IPs and how to construct transmedia worlds. Each chapter will be written by a professional with exceptional experience in the field of the chapter. Key Features Learn from industry experts how to tackle today’s challenges in storytelling for games. A learn by example and exercise approach, which was praised in the Game Narrative Toolbox. An in depth view on advanced storytelling techniques and topics as they are currently discussed and used in the gaming industry. Expand your knowledge in game writing as you learn and try yourself to design quests, write romances and build worlds as you would as a writer in a game studio. Improve your own stories by learning and trying the techniques used by the professionals of game writing.

Author : Harry T. Reis,Charles M. Judd
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2000-03-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0521559030

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Handbook of Research Methods in Social and Personality Psychology by Harry T. Reis,Charles M. Judd Pdf

This volume, first published in 2000, provides an overview of research methods in contemporary social psychology.

Author : Kevin Lynch
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1964-06-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262620014

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The Image of the City by Kevin Lynch Pdf

The classic work on the evaluation of city form. What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion—imageability—and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuilding of cities. The wide scope of this study leads to an original and vital method for the evaluation of city form. The architect, the planner, and certainly the city dweller will all want to read this book.

Author : Anca I. Lasc,Deborah Schneiderman,Keena Suh,Karin Tehve,Alexa Griffith Winton,Karyn Zieve
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000206791

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Interior Provocations by Anca I. Lasc,Deborah Schneiderman,Keena Suh,Karin Tehve,Alexa Griffith Winton,Karyn Zieve Pdf

Interior Provocations: History, Theory, and Practice of Autonomous Interiors addresses the broad cultural, historical, and theoretical implications of interiors beyond their conventionally defined architectural boundaries. With provocative contributions from leading and emerging historians, theorists, and design practitioners, the book is rooted in new scholarship that expands traditional relationships between architecture and interiors and that reflects the latest theoretical developments in the fields of interior design history and practice. This collection contains diverse case studies from the late eighteenth century to the twenty-first century including Alexander Pope’s Memorial Garden, Design Indaba, and Robin Evans. It is an essential read for researchers, practitioners, and students of interior design at all levels.

Author : Peter Axelson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : People with disabilities
ISBN : MINN:31951P00708318V

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Designing Sidewalks and Trails for Access by Peter Axelson Pdf

This report focuses on how sidewalks and trails can be made accessible and usable by the widest possible segment of the population. Sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration, a project to research existing conditions on sidewalks and trails for people with disabilities was designed in two parts. Part I, covers literature surveys, site surveys and interviews along with the history of accessibility legislation, travel characteristics of the disabled and engineering and construction design practices. Part II provides data on implementing the requirements of parts of two acts, Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.

Author : Andrzej Bartoszewicz
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789533073385

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Challenges and Paradigms in Applied Robust Control by Andrzej Bartoszewicz Pdf

The main objective of this book is to present important challenges and paradigms in the field of applied robust control design and implementation. Book contains a broad range of well worked out, recent application studies which include but are not limited to H-infinity, sliding mode, robust PID and fault tolerant based control systems. The contributions enrich the current state of the art, and encourage new applications of robust control techniques in various engineering and non-engineering systems.

Author : Charles Travis,Francis Ludlow,Ferenc Gyuris
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030375690

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Historical Geography, GIScience and Textual Analysis by Charles Travis,Francis Ludlow,Ferenc Gyuris Pdf

This book illustrates how literature, history and geographical analysis complement and enrich each other’s disciplinary endeavors. The Hun-Lenox Globe, constructed in 1510, contains the Latin phrase 'Hic sunt dracones' ('Here be dragons'), warning sailors of the dangers of drifting into uncharted waters. Nearly half a millennium earlier, the practice of ‘earth-writing’ (geographia) emerged from the cloisters of the great library of Alexandria, as a discipline blending the twin pursuits of Strabo’s poetic impression of places, and Herodotus’ chronicles of events and cultures. Eratosthenes, a librarian at Alexandria, and the mathematician Ptolemy employed geometry as another language with which to pursue ‘earth-writing’. From this ancient, East Mediterranean fount, the streams of literary perception, historical record and geographical analysis (phenomenological and Euclidean) found confluence. The aim of this collection is to recover such means and seek the fount of such rich waters, by exploring relations between historical geography, geographic information science (GIS) / geoscience, and textual analysis. The book discusses and illustrates current case studies, trends and discourses in European, American and Asian spheres, where historical geography is practiced in concert with human and physical applications of GIS (and the broader geosciences) and the analysis of text - broadly conceived as archival, literary, historical, cultural, climatic, scientific, digital, cinematic and media. Time as a multi-scaled concept (again, broadly conceived) is the pivot around which the interdisciplinary contributions to this volume revolve. In The Landscape of Time (2002) the historian John Lewis Gaddis posits: “What if we were to think of history as a kind of mapping?” He links the ancient practice of mapmaking with the three-part conception of time (past, present, and future). Gaddis presents the practices of cartography and historical narrative as attempts to manage infinitely complex subjects by imposing abstract grids to frame the phenomena being examined— longitude and latitude to frame landscapes and, occidental and oriental temporal scales to frame timescapes. Gaddis contends that if the past is a landscape and history is the way we represent it, then it follows that pattern recognition constitutes a primary form of human perception, one that can be parsed empirically, statistically and phenomenologically. In turn, this volume reasons that literary, historical, cartographical, scientific, mathematical, and counterfactual narratives create their own spatio-temporal frames of reference. Confluences between the poetic and the positivistic; the empirical and the impressionistic; the epic and the episodic; and the chronologic and the chorologic, can be identified and studied by integrating practices in historical geography, GIScience / geoscience and textual analysis. As a result, new perceptions and insights, facilitating further avenues of scholarship into uncharted waters emerge. The various ways in which geographical, historical and textual perspectives are hermeneutically woven together in this volume illuminates the different methods with which to explore terrae incognitaes of knowledge beyond the shores of their own separate disciplinary islands.

Author : James C. Scott
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300252989

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Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott Pdf

“One of the most profound and illuminating studies of this century to have been published in recent decades.”—John Gray, New York Times Book Review Hailed as “a magisterial critique of top-down social planning” by the New York Times, this essential work analyzes disasters from Russia to Tanzania to uncover why states so often fail—sometimes catastrophically—in grand efforts to engineer their society or their environment, and uncovers the conditions common to all such planning disasters. “Beautifully written, this book calls into sharp relief the nature of the world we now inhabit.”—New Yorker “A tour de force.”— Charles Tilly, Columbia University