Building the labyrinth: embracing and overcoming complexity in interactive narrative creation
Building the labyrinth: embracing and overcoming complexity in interactive narrative creation
The nature of interactive narrative creates various kinds of authorial burden, where the workload increases with the complexity of the project. This makes authoring long-form interactive narrative a difficult undertaking. Authors use different strategies to manage this burden. Using thematic analysis of a series of qualitative author interviews, I developed a conceptual model of the authorial burden. Using this model, I then undertook a process of Research through Design, seeking to implement this promising strategy through the completion of a long-form commercial interactive novel. This has resulted in a promising design strategy, the Stage Lights approach.
University of Southampton
Jones, Joey Donald
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2025
Jones, Joey Donald
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Millard, David
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Ashton, Daniel
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Jones, Joey Donald
(2025)
Building the labyrinth: embracing and overcoming complexity in interactive narrative creation.
University of Southampton, Doctoral Thesis, 149pp.
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The nature of interactive narrative creates various kinds of authorial burden, where the workload increases with the complexity of the project. This makes authoring long-form interactive narrative a difficult undertaking. Authors use different strategies to manage this burden. Using thematic analysis of a series of qualitative author interviews, I developed a conceptual model of the authorial burden. Using this model, I then undertook a process of Research through Design, seeking to implement this promising strategy through the completion of a long-form commercial interactive novel. This has resulted in a promising design strategy, the Stage Lights approach.
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Published date: 2025
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/503601
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Joey Donald Jones
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David Millard
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