September 06, 2006
Interactive StorytellingStoryworld and Storybuilder
DDJ: Let's talk about the system. Maybe we could start by defining some of the key terminology. Like storyworld?
CC: A storyworld is a data structure that contains implicit within it zillions of possible stories. When a player interacts with the storyworld, he generates one story.
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Figure 1: Actor editor.
DDJ: And storybuilder?
CC: A storyworld is created by someone we call a storybuilder, who is an artist who uses our development environment, which is called "SWAT," to build storyworlds.
DDJ: SWAT is an acronym for...
CC: "Storyworld Authoring Tool." There are three programs. A storybuilder uses SWAT to create a storyworld. The second technology is the [Storytron] Engine, the third technology is Storyteller, which is the consumer program. Both Storyteller and SWAT access the Engine, Storyteller to play it, and SWAT to run Rehearsal, our testing feature.
DDJ: And Diekto?
CC: Diekto is the language.
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Figure 2: Verb editor.
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1 Interactive Storytelling
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2 People, Not Things
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3 Seeing the Light
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4 Storyworld and Storybuilder
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5 Making it Accessible
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6 Applications
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