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A reading of skeleton seas of mare incognitum: an interactive fiction expedition in curveship

Published: 03 November 2011 Publication History

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Skeletons of Mare Incognitum (The Unkown Sea) is an interactive fiction (IF) work developed by Fox Harrell. This work was written using Curveship [1, 2], a platform for implementing works of IF that offers a range of affordances for narrative variation such as flashbacks, temporal movement of the narrator, and changes in voice.

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[1]
Montfort, N., Curveship: An Interactive Ficiton System for Narrative Variation, in New Narratives: Stories and Storytelling in the Digital Age, R. Page and B. Thomas, Editors. University of Nebraska Press: Lincoln: NE, forthcoming 2011.
[2]
Montfort, N., Generating Narrative Variation in Interactive Fiction, Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Computer and Information Science. University of Pennsylvnia: Philadelphia: PA, 2007.
[3]
Harrell, D.F., Toward a Theory of Phantasmal Media: An Imaginative Cognition- and Computation-Based Approach to Digital Media. CTheory, 2009.
[4]
Harrell, D.F., GRIOT's Tales of Haints and Seraphs: A Computational Narrative Generation System, in Second Person: Role-Playing and Story in Games and Playable Media, N. Wardrip-Fruin and P. Harrigan, Editors. MIT Press: Cambridge, MA, 2007.

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    C&C '11: Proceedings of the 8th ACM conference on Creativity and cognition
    November 2011
    492 pages
    ISBN:9781450308205
    DOI:10.1145/2069618
    • General Chair:
    • Ashok K. Goel,
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    • Fox Harrell,
    • Brian Magerko,
    • Yukari Nagai,
    • Jane Prophet

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    Published: 03 November 2011

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    1. artificial intelligence
    2. interactive fiction
    3. narrative
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    November 3 - 6, 2011
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