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Story vs Game

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“The pleasure people derive from games is not dependent on their ability to tell stories.” If you are interested in how narrative can fit into games – to enhance the user experience, spin a unique non-linear tale, etc – then an article worth reading is Where Stories End and Games Begin by Greg Costikyan (costik.com/gamnstry.html).…

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Building a Language for an Interactive Experience

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ABSTRACT Interactive multimedia systems are often designed and implemented primarily through intuition, and thus a common language for creating an interactive experience is needed for the interactive system developer. This paper discusses building a language for an interactive experience by outlining the steps required, and principles involved in designing an interactive environment. A preliminary language…

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Narrative Intelligence

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Human beings make sense of the world by telling stories. We take life’s events and order them into narratives in order to find meaning within them. This ability to “organize experience into narrative form” is termed by Michael Mateas and Phoebe Sengers as “Narrative Intelligence.” Their paper “Narrative Intelligence” is a discussion of computational storytelling…

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Action/Interaction

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Interaction design is a termed used to describe the design considerations that surface when mediating the interaction between a human and the digital and networked world. “Interaction design” has evolved out of “user-interface design,” and has come to refer to not only the interface issues, but also the entire management of the complex interactions that…

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Lean UX: Getting Out Of The Deliverables Business

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Check out this great article on Smashing Magazine on Lean UX, a methodology rooted in Agile. Excerpt: “Inspired by Lean and Agile development theories, Lean UX is the practice of bringing the true nature of our work to light faster, with less emphasis on deliverables and greater focus on the actual experience being designed.”

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Aviary Suite of Graphic Tools

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What it is: A free suite of online graphics tools. Where you can get it: aviary.com Say good-bye to Photoshop (well, maybe not good-bye forever). With this powerful set of online creation tools all you need is your browser to perform some pretty advanced image editing techniques, screen captures, color editing, and more. I recommend…

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