Klappentext

Based on Soviet narratology, this book offers a genealogy of spatial, user-centric story design and its current applications as a counter-narrative to agonal games, classical novels and cinema. It will appeal to performance art, game design, interactive storytelling, narratology, philosophy, AI research, and Human-Machine-Interaction.

Inhalt

Introduction

PART I

1. The Birth of Interactive Narrative from the Spirit of Role-Playing Games

2. Game Over

3. Imaginary Spaces

4. Embodied Action

5. Cybernetics: The Convergence of Control

   PART II

6. Dangerous Contradictions-Lotman and Marx

7. Soviet Semiotics of Play

8. The User as a Cultural Construction

9. Permanent Explosions

   PART III

10. Applications of Soviet Narratology for Interactive Storytelling

11. Conclusion: The Future of Unintentional Storytelling

Index