Authorial burden
Authorial burden
There are limits that emerge out of the interactive nature of interactive digital narrative that make authoring it challenging. These limits include exponential branching, where branches in the narrative increase the amount of content needed to be written progressively throughout the work; combinatorial explosion, where increasing combinations of possible game states makes writing additional content
complex; as well as programming scope problems that are seen in any digital project, wherein the range of features or game interactions that could be implemented is infinite but development time finite. These limits place on the authors of interactive digital narrative an authorial burden, increasing the amount of content needed to be written, states managed or features programmed. There are multiple strategies for tackling the burden, from reducing or reusing content, to decontextualising and generating content.
Jones, Joey, Donald
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2022
Jones, Joey, Donald
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Jones, Joey, Donald
(2022)
Authorial burden.
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Hargood, Charlie, Millard, David, Mitchell, Alex and Spierling, Ulrike
(eds.)
The Authoring Problem: Challenges in Supporting Authoring for Interactive Digital Narratives.
Springer.
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There are limits that emerge out of the interactive nature of interactive digital narrative that make authoring it challenging. These limits include exponential branching, where branches in the narrative increase the amount of content needed to be written progressively throughout the work; combinatorial explosion, where increasing combinations of possible game states makes writing additional content
complex; as well as programming scope problems that are seen in any digital project, wherein the range of features or game interactions that could be implemented is infinite but development time finite. These limits place on the authors of interactive digital narrative an authorial burden, increasing the amount of content needed to be written, states managed or features programmed. There are multiple strategies for tackling the burden, from reducing or reusing content, to decontextualising and generating content.
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Joey, Donald Jones
Editor:
Charlie Hargood
Editor:
David Millard
Editor:
Alex Mitchell
Editor:
Ulrike Spierling
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