Interactive Storytelling

There’s this interactive storytelling project that I need to finish before I can start revising for the final exams. This project cuts into the reading week and is due on 24 Dec 2006. I’ve just finished everything and sent it out for review. Hope that I can get it back soon so that I can revise it again.

The main purpose of the project is to create an interactive experience for the user who is playing this story. The crux of the project is that the user’s character through his interaction with the other characters’ in the story must affect the other characters’ personality and cause them to behave differently. It is the characters that drive the plot and not the story that drives the plot. If the story drives the plot, it will look like a movie, or linear story book that has only 1 path defined by the author through the story. In an interactive story, the plots driven by the character should provide the user with a sense of immersion through the interactivity. Only through this process can the story be said to be successful.

This site is provides an important overview of Interactive Storytelling:

http://storytron.com/overview/ov_index.html