Bringing Interactivity into Campbell’s Hero’s Journey

Delmas, Guylain; Champagnat, Ronan; Augeraud, Michel

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-77039-8_17

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“…The hero's journey model is commonly used in movies and in commercial videogames (Ip, 2010). Dickey (2006) and Delmas, Champagnat, and Augeraud's (2007) propose that the narrative structure of the hero's journey can be adapted to the design of interactive ludic learning environments.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…While developing a specific questionnaire for this study, instruments to evaluate the acceptability of educational games were considered (Carter, 2007;Batista, & Cornachione, 2005;Rovai, 2009;De Grove, Van Looy, & Courtois, 2010). A preliminary version of the acceptability scale was developed and tested in a non-clinical sample (n=147).…”

Section: Acceptability Scalementioning

confidence: 99%

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Acceptability of an adventure video game in the treatment of female adolescents with symptoms of depression

Carrasco

2016

ResPsy

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While many adolescent patients resistantly engage in psychotherapy, they are attracted by new technologies and video games. A development and research project was implemented to design an online adventure video game as a psychotherapeutic tool for depressed adolescents and to evaluate its acceptability. The game design followed the narrative structure of the hero’s journey and ideas from the cognitive behavioral and interpersonal psychotherapy models for depression. Five psychotherapists and fifteen of their female adolescent patients with symptoms of depression tested the game. Some patients valued the video game in terms of learning helpful social and mental health-related behaviors. Therapists manifested that a video game like Maya could be a useful complementary tool for psychotherapy of adolescent girls. The study suggests that future developments of video games for mental health are worthwhile and it provides some ideas on how to incorporate psychotherapeutic notions in ludic environments.

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Section: Acceptability Scalementioning

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Acceptability of an adventure video game in the treatment of female adolescents with symptoms of depression

Carrasco

2016

ResPsy

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“…It divides the story in three acts (departure, initiation, and return), with 17 nonmandatory stages that are the universal scaffolding of ancient myths as well as modern day adventures. The hero's journey has been used for interactive storytelling in video games (Delmas, Champagnat, & Augeraud, 2007) and massive backstories generation (García-Ortega, García-Sánchez, Merelo Guervós, Ginés, & Cabezas, 2016). The Propp's formalism and the hero's journey, as well as many other widely used narrative patterns, are included in the definition of trope.…”

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StarTroper, a film trope rating optimizer using machine learning and evolutionary algorithms

García-Ortega¹,

García‐Sánchez

Merelo-Guervós

2020

Expert Systems

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TVTropes is a wiki that describes tropes and which ones are used in which artistic work. We are mostly interested in films, so after releasing the TropeScraper Python module that extracts data from this site, in this report we use scraped information to describe statistically how tropes and films are related to each other and how these relations evolve in time. In order to do so, we generated a dataset through the tool TropeScraper in April 2020. We have compared it to the latest snapshot of DB Tropes, a dataset covering the same site and published in July 2016, providing descriptive analysis, studying the fundamental differences and addressing the evolution of the wiki in terms of the number of tropes, the number of films and connections. The results show that the number of tropes and films doubled their value and quadrupled their relations, and films are, at large, better described in terms of tropes. However, while the types of films with the most tropes has not changed significantly in years, the list of most popular tropes has. This outcome can help on shedding some light on how popular tropes evolve, which ones become more popular or fade away, and in general how a set of tropes represents a film and might be a key to its success. The dataset generated, the information extracted, and the summaries provided are useful resources for any research involving films and tropes. They can provide proper context and explanations about the behaviour of models built on top of the dataset, including the generation of new content or its use in machine learning. TV Tropes [3] is an outstanding source of knowledge because it describes thousands of tropes and relates them to artistic works, providing examples with a broad context in terms of the characters, places and actions. These relations, once extracted and processed, have shown to be very valuable in the field of Artificial Intelligence, in both content generation and quality prediction, as in [4].TV Tropes is a non-structured wiki-style database, and most researchers access to its data through a structured ntuple-based database called DB Tropes [1]. Nevertheless, BDTropes was unattended in July 2016, and the prolific community of TV Tropes has doubled the number of films and their tropes since then. For this reason, in order to allow the researchers to use the films and tropes from TV Tropes, we implemented a scraper called TropeScraper [2] and licensed it as free software, so it becomes part of the Python ecosystem. This new tool, which takes days to download the whole database, has allowed us, and now you, to make a more up-to-date analysis of the tropes used in films. The rest of the paper will be devoted to this.Although the quantity of the information extracted is promising, doubling the number of films and tropes in TV Tropes, an exploratory statistical analysis shows that the data is still incomplete, with distributions that point out to huge biases due to the popularity of the films and tropes. The detection of these biases is essential to explain the outcome...

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“…One such attempt was to inject interactivity into Campbell's Hero's Journey [15]. The original theory by Campbell [13] specifies 17 phases and is ideal for mapping linear narratives that conform to the progression outlined by the model.…”

Section: Adding Interactivity To Narratological Modelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Novella 2.0: A Hypertextual Architecture for Interactive Narrative in Games

Green

Hargood

Charles

2019

Proceedings of the 30th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media

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The hypertext community has a history of research in Interactive Digital Narrative (IDN), including experimental works [27] and systems to support authoring [6]. Arguably the most prevalent contemporary form of IDN is within the world of computer games where a mixture of large-scale commercial works and smaller indie experimental pieces continue to develop new forms of interactive storytelling. We can explore these pieces through the lens of hypertextual theory and support them with hypertextual architectures, but there are unique challenges within modern game-based storytelling that these frameworks sometimes struggle to capture on a content level, leaving us in some cases with insufficient models and vocabulary. In this paper, we build upon previous work [19] by presenting a discussion on techniques of modeling video game narrative. This is followed by thorough presentation and demonstration of our game-centric theoretical model of interactive narrative, Novella 2.0, which builds upon our previous contributions. This model is then positioned within a novel architecture for the authoring, interchange, integration, and simulation of video game narrative. We present alongside the architecture four key innovations towards supporting game narrative. We include support for Discoverable Narrative and other game narrative content alongside structural features in a deference of responsibility to game engines and our own approach to mixing calligraphic and sculptural hypertext structure. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing → Hypertext / hypermedia.

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Bringing Interactivity into Campbell’s Hero’s Journey

Cited by 12 publications

References 6 publications

Acceptability of an adventure video game in the treatment of female adolescents with symptoms of depression

Acceptability of an adventure video game in the treatment of female adolescents with symptoms of depression

StarTroper, a film trope rating optimizer using machine learning and evolutionary algorithms

Novella 2.0: A Hypertextual Architecture for Interactive Narrative in Games

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