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Authoring interactive narratives with hypersections

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Jean-Hugues Réty,

Nicolas Szilas,

Serge BouchardonAuthors Info & Claims

DIMEA '08: Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Digital Interactive Media in Entertainment and Arts

Pages 393 - 400

https://doi.org/10.1145/1413634.1413704

Published: 10 September 2008 Publication History

Abstract

We present in this paper a framework for interactive narrative authoring. This framework is based on a generalized notion of section that we name hypersection. We present a graphical editor and discuss reader softwares for interactive narratives based on hypersections.

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Index Terms

Authoring interactive narratives with hypersections
1. Applied computing
  1. Arts and humanities
    1. Fine arts
    2. Performing arts

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DIMEA '08: Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Digital Interactive Media in Entertainment and Arts

September 2008

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ISBN:9781605582481

DOI:10.1145/1413634

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Athens Information Technology, Greece
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Ferri G(2016)Place and ITV: Playful Design Strategies Towards Place-Oriented ITVHandbook of Digital Games and Entertainment Technologies10.1007/978-981-4560-50-4_46(1127-1155)Online publication date: 10-Aug-2016
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Ferri G(2015)Place and ITV: Playful Design Strategies Towards Place-Oriented ITVHandbook of Digital Games and Entertainment Technologies10.1007/978-981-4560-52-8_46-1(1-29)Online publication date: 20-Aug-2015
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