Interactive Digital Narrative

<p>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.</p>