An invaluable collection of essays and interviews exploring the business of interactive storytelling, this highly accessible guide offers invaluable insight into an ever-evolving field that is utilising new spatial and interactive narrative forms to tell stories. This includes new media filmmaking and content creation, a huge variety of analog story world design, eXtended realities, game design, and VR design.
The book contains essays written by and interviews with working game designers, producers, 360-degree filmmakers, immersive theatre creators and media professors, exploring the business side of interactive storytelling - where art meets business. Contributors to this book will share their perspectives on how to break into the field; how to develop, nurture, and navigate business relationships; expectations in terms of business etiquette; strategies for contending with the emotional highs and lows of interactive storytelling; how to do creative work under pressure; the realities of working with partners in the field of new media narrative design; prepping for prototyping; writing analog and digital; and more.
This is an idea resource for students of filmmaking, screenwriting, media studies, RTVF, game design, VR and AR design, theatre, and journalism that are interested in navigating a career pathway in the exciting field of interactive storytelling.
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| Acknowledgments |
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| Introduction |
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Chapter 1 Getting Started |
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We Are Building A Bridge As We Are Walking Across IT |
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Narrative Design: A Winding Path, A Wild Adventure |
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Augmented Reality Design: A Brief How-To of Reality Creation |
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Playing Improvisational Theater In Los Angeles |
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Chapter 2 Sticking It Out |
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Navigating The Industry As An Independent Creative |
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48 | (9) |
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57 | (9) |
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Teaching Interactive Storytelling And Game Design |
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Through The Eyes Of The Life and Practice of an Interactive Storyteller |
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Building The Arqive As A Digital Interactive Storytelling Platform |
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Chapter 3 Finding Success |
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Sixty Seconds You Never Forget Designing a Theme Park Ride |
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92 | (9) |
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Telling Stories With Virtual Reality The Empathy Machine |
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Space As Interactive Story |
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Real Money In Immersive Experiences |
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112 | (9) |
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Add play to your day! Putting on a playshop |
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121 | (6) |
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127 | (45) |
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Through The Darkest Of Times Making a Digital Game about the Historical Resistance Against the Nazis |
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Stop, Collaborate, And Listen |
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Building A Transmedia World Inspired By Science |
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154 | (9) |
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Interactive Storytelling: From Analog To Digital A Review of Contemporary Case Studies |
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Flatgames: Videogame Zinesters and their Autobiographical Story Worlds |
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Queer Time, Productivity, And Failure In Interactive Media |
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184 | (9) |
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Any Given Moment: Developing a Shared Language in Multidisciplinary Collaborations |
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Activism And Interactive Storytelling |
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| Conclusion |
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| About the editors |
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Sylke Rene Meyer is a writer, director, media artist, performer, educator, and co-founder of the performance group Studio206 in Berlin (2007), extended in LA (2019). In 2018, she also co-founded the performance group "Family Room Collective" in Los Angeles. She is a Professor of Creative Writing and the Director of the Institute for Interactive Arts, Research, and Technology at California State University in Los Angeles.
Gustavo Aldana is a musician, media artist, and educator. Their projects have involved the combination of electronic music, interactive visuals, and the creative use and manipulation of myriad forms of digital media as forms of resistance. They are a graduate student in Television, Film, and Media Studies at California State University, Los Angeles.
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