The ‘Interactive’ of Interactive Storytelling: Customizing the Gaming Experience

Bostan, Barbaros; Marsh, Tim

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-15399-0_63

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“…For "Façade" users, then, the interactive experience was 'more different' from the non-interactive version than for "Fahrenheit" users. This is proposed as empirical evidence for IS researchers' understanding that advanced integration of user agency and narrative generation can indeed lead to innovative modes of entertainment experience [1] [4]. The present data suggest that this innovative experience is best characterized by strong immersion and affective dynamics (both positive and negative emotions), which may lead to very inspiring and long-lasting personal impressions.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 53%

“…Modelling user experiences in IS exposure turns out to be a theoretical challenge [4]. Because IS systems share similarities with a wide array of conventional and new media entertainment [5], the list of construals from media psychology that could emerge as relevant dimensions of the IS user experience is remarkably long.…”

Section: Conceptual Background: Mixing Interactivity and Narrativementioning

confidence: 99%

“…But audiences are going to perceive, use, and adopt such (radically) new media remains an open question [4]. How using such media will 'feel like', which qualities of enjoyment Interactive Storytelling can facilitate is not well understood, which is due to both a lack of theoretical-psychological reasoning and of empirical exploration.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Experience of Interactive Storytelling: Comparing “Fahrenheit” with “Façade”

Roth¹,

Klimmt

Vermeulen³

et al. 2011

Entertainment Computing – ICEC 2011

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Abstract. At the intersection of multimedia, artificial intelligence, and gaming technology, new visions of future entertainment media arise that approximate the "Holodeck" ® idea of interactive storytelling. We report exploratory experiments on the user experience in a 'classic', foundational application of interactive storytelling, "Façade" (Mateas & Stern, 2002), and compare results with an identical experiment carried out with users of the adventure game "Fahrenheit". A total of N = 148 participants used one of the systems interactively or watched a pre-recorded video sequence of the application without interactive involvement. Using a broad range of entertainment-related measures, the experience of Interactive Storytelling was found to depend strongly on interactivity (mostly in "Façade") and to differ substantially across the systems, with "Façade" achieving a stronger connection between interactive use and the resulting profile of entertainment experiences.

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“…Interactive storytelling can be defined as 'a gaming experience where the form and content of the game is customized in real time and tailored to the preferences and needs of the player to maximize enjoyment' [12]. After all, the fundamental goal of interactivity is stated to present the user with different choices to be able to receive a highly personalised end result [104].…”

Section: Narrative Adaptationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Personalised gaming

Bakkes

Tan

Pisan

2012

Proceedings of the 8th Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment: Playing the System

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This article focuses on personalised games, which we define as games that utilise player models for the purpose of tailoring the game experience to the individual player. The main contribution of the article is a motivation for personalised gaming, supported by an extensive overview of scientific literature. The motivatin concerns (a) the psychological foundation, (b) the effect on player satisfaction, (c) the contribution to game development, and (d) the requirement for achieving ambitions. The provided overview of scientific literature goes into the subject of player modelling, as well as eight adaptive components: (1) space adaptation, (2) mission / task adaptation, (3) character adaptation, (4) game mechanics adaptation, (5) narrative adaptation, (6) music / sound adaptation, (7) player matching (multiplayer), and (8) difficulty scaling. In the concluding sections, the relationship to procedural content generation is discussed, as well as the generalisation to other domains.

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“…The evaluation of the user's experience and the closely connected user-centred development of video games have been addressed in numerous publications (cf. Marsh et al 2005;Bostan and Marsh 2010). Several researchers have designed methods to evaluate video games by adopting techniques from the usability field such as usability tests and heuristic evaluations.…”

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A Heuristic Framework for Evaluating User Experience in Games

Hochleitner

Graf

Tscheligi

2015

Human–Computer Interaction Series

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This book chapter describes an approach of evaluating user experience in video games by using heuristics. We provide a short overview of video games and explain the concept of user-centred design for games. Furthermore we describe the history of heuristics for video games and the role of user experience of games in general. Based on our previous work and experience we propose a revised framework consisting of two sets of heuristics (game play/game story, virtual interface) to detect the most critical issues in games. To assess its applicability to measure user experience factors we compare the results of expert evaluations of six current games with the user experience-based ratings of various game reviews. Our findings indicate a correlation between the extent to which our framework is satisfied and the game's average rating.

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The ‘Interactive’ of Interactive Storytelling: Customizing the Gaming Experience

Cited by 13 publications

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The Experience of Interactive Storytelling: Comparing “Fahrenheit” with “Façade”

The Experience of Interactive Storytelling: Comparing “Fahrenheit” with “Façade”

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A Heuristic Framework for Evaluating User Experience in Games

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