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Digital storytelling : a creator's guide to interactive entertainment

Summary: "Understand the 'how' and 'why' of interactive storytelling to develop powerful characters, structures, and storylines specifically for digital entertainment. This book covers techniques for creating compelling narratives for a variety of digital media."--Book jacket.

Record details

ISBN: 9780240809595 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0240809599 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
xvi, 479 p. : ill ; 24 cm.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Amsterdam ; Boston : Focal Press/Elsevier, c2008.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 461-463) and indexes.

Formatted Contents Note:

Storytelling, old and new -- Backwater to mainstream: the growth of digital entertainment -- Moving toward convergence -- Interactivity and its effects -- Old tools/new tools -- Characters, dialogue, and emotions -- Structure in digital storytelling -- Tackling projects for children -- Using a transmedia approach -- Creating a work of digital storytelling: the development process -- Using digital storytelling to teach and train -- Using digital storytelling for promotion, advertising, and other business purposes -- Using digital storytelling to inform -- Video games -- The internet -- Massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) -- Alternate relaity games (ARGs) -- Interactive television (iTV) -- Smart toys and lifelike robots -- Mobile devices -- Interactive cinema (iCinema) -- Immersive environments -- DVDs -- Electronic kiosks -- Workingas a digital storyteller -- Creating your own showcase.