{"id":12745,"date":"2010-12-23T09:06:11","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T14:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=12745"},"modified":"2010-12-23T09:06:44","modified_gmt":"2010-12-23T14:06:44","slug":"merging-interaction-and-narrative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/12\/23\/merging-interaction-and-narrative\/","title":{"rendered":"Merging interaction and narrative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.webcredible.co.uk\/blog\/interaction-and-narrative\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Merging interaction and narrative<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from webcredible.co.uk by Philip Webb<\/p>\n<p>Excerpt:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">There has traditionally been a tension between the idea of <strong>interaction<\/strong> (doing something) and <strong>narrative<\/strong> (watching or reading something). The experience of consuming a great  film or book isn\u2019t necessarily a passive one but it does differ from the  immersive experience of playing a game. And yet the possibilities to  combine the two seem so promising.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The trouble is games often struggle to convey narrative \u2013 the  story can seem bolted on as an afterthought or delivered at clumsy  moments between levels. Similarly, attempts at<strong> interactive books<\/strong> where readers spontaneously choose the way plots evolve can be  unsatisfying because constructing a linear story is an art that  novelists spend a lifetime perfecting. Of course, there are notable  exceptions such as multi-user games like World of Warcraft where the  narrative is something players experience and influence through their  participation. Here game designers act more as architects than authors \u2013  providing an open environment where the interactions form an  unpredictable narrative drama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merging interaction and narrative &#8212; from webcredible.co.uk by Philip Webb Excerpt: There has traditionally been a tension between the idea of interaction (doing something) and narrative (watching or reading something). The experience of consuming a great film or book isn\u2019t necessarily a passive one but it does differ from the immersive experience of playing a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,275,215,158,276,157,38],"tags":[578,704,24,151,652,705,651,588],"class_list":["post-12745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-storytelling","category-digital-textbooks","category-educational-games-serious-games","category-interaction-design","category-interactivity","category-storytelling","category-uk","tag-digital-storytelling","tag-digital-textbooks","tag-educational-gaming","tag-games","tag-interaction-design","tag-interactivity","tag-storytelling","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12745"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12748,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12745\/revisions\/12748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}