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Structuring Digital Game Stories

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Interactive Storytelling (ICIDS 2018)

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This paper describes ongoing research towards a new model of video game storytelling involving structural manipulation of space and interactivity.

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  1. Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, USA

    Elizabeth Goins

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  1. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA

    Rebecca Rouse

  2. University of the Arts Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Hartmut Koenitz

  3. Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

    Mads Haahr

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Goins, E. (2018). Structuring Digital Game Stories. In: Rouse, R., Koenitz, H., Haahr, M. (eds) Interactive Storytelling. ICIDS 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11318. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04028-4_27

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