Story and Simulations for Serious Games: Tales from the Trenches

by Iuppa; Nick

• ISBN13: 9780240807881
• ISBN10: 024080788X
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2006-11-15
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Studies have shown that the power of storytelling can make learning simulations more memorable, compelling, and effective. Yet it remains difficult to create a learning simulation where participants have a sense of freedom and personal control while still maintaining the structure necessary for an effective story. This book guides you through practical and thought-provoking considerations on building a simulation or serious game that effectively uses storytelling. It also looks at stories as classic ways of teaching and gathering knowledge, and considers other methodologies of interactive narrative design such as synthetic story creation and management and participant-generated story experiences. It discusses enabling technologies such as artificial intelligence, design, and development of synthetic characters, speech recognition, and 3D modeling. The book concludes with a look at the future of story-driven games. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Nick Iuppa currently he is designing story based simulation-training for the U.S. Fire Service Terry Borst taught screenwriting and multimedia design at UCLA, USC, the College of Santa Fe, Moorpark College

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. xvii
Who This Book is For	p. 1
Case Studies	p. 5
The StoryDrive Engine	p. 7
Collaborative Distance Learning	p. 17
Branching Storylines	p. 25
Stories and Story Development	p. 33
A Good Story (The Simple Answer)	p. 35
Other Perspectives on Story	p. 41
War Stories and Parables	p. 47
Designing Simulation Stories from Tacit Knowledge	p. 53
Simulation Stories and Free Play	p. 61
Experience Management	p. 69
Story Representation in Experience Management	p. 77
Characters	p. 81
Creating Multidimensional Characters	p. 83
A Really Good Villain	p. 97
Synthetic Characters	p. 107
Man in the Loop vs. The Automated Game Manager	p. 111
The Instructor as Dungeon Master	p. 113
Automated Story Generation	p. 119
Completing the Pyramid	p. 123
Game Play	p. 125
Evaluation and Testing	p. 133
Building the Immersive Environment	p. 143
Content Scripting Tools	p. 145
Selecting Media and Platform: An Overview	p. 155
Immersive Desktop Experiences	p. 161
The Internet	p. 167
Interactive Video and Interactive Television	p. 175
Real-Time 3D Virtual Worlds	p. 185
Audio	p. 195
Simulation Integration	p. 205
Story Structures for Commercial Games	p. 211
Back Story and Free Play	p. 213
Stories in State-of-the-Art Serious Games	p. 219
Stories in State-of-the-Art Commercial Games	p. 221
The Future of Story-Driven Games	p. 227
The Future: The Role of Story	p. 229
Immersive Distance Learning Experiences	p. 229
Online Collaborative Games and Simulations	p. 230
Story-Driven Massively Multiplayer Online Games	p. 231
Location-Based Full-Sensory Simulations (Virtual Reality)	p. 231
Keeping Track of the Evolution	p. 232
Summary	p. 233
Conclusion	p. 235
Bibliography	p. 237
Index	p. 239
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