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This fourth edition of Digital Storytelling: A creator's guide to interactive entertainment dives deeply into the world of interactive storytelling, a form of storytelling made possible by digital media. Carolyn Handler Miller covers both the basics - character development, structure and the use of interactivity - and the more advanced topics, such as AI (Artificial Intelligence), narratives using AR and VR, and Social Media storytelling. The fourth edition also includes a greatly expanded section on immersive media, with chapters on the exciting new world of the world of XR (AR, VR, and mixed reality), plus immersion via large screens, escape rooms and new kinds of theme park experiences. This edition covers all viable forms of New Media, from video games to interactive documentaries. With numerous case studies that delve into the processes and challenges of developing works of interactive narrative, this new edition illustrates the creative possibilities of digital storytelling. The book goes beyond using digital media for entertainment and covers its employment for education, training, information and promotion, featuring interviews with some of the industry's biggest names.
Key Features:
- A large new section covering various forms of immersive media, including VR, AR and Mixed Reality
- Breakthroughs in interactive TV and Cinema
- The use of VR, AR and mixed reality in gaming
- New forms of voice-enabled storytelling and gaming
- Stories told via mobile apps and social media
- Developing Digital Storytelling for different types of audiences
List of contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
PART 1 New Technologies, New Creative Opportunities
Chapter 1 - Storytelling, Old and New
Chapter 2 - Backwater to Mainstream: The Growth of Digital Entertainment
PART 2 Creating Story-Rich Projects
Chapter 3 - Interactivity and Its Effects
Chapter 4 - Old Tools/New Tools
Chapter 5 - Characters, Dialogue, and Emotions
Chapter 6 - Structure in Digital Storytelling
Chapter 7 - Your Audience
Chapter 8 - Social Media and Storytelling
Chapter 9 - Guidelines: Creating a New Project
PART 3 Harnessing Digital Storytelling for Pragmatic Goals
Chapter 10 - Using Digital Storytelling to Teach, Promote, and Inform
PART 4 Media and Models: Under the Hood
Chapter 11 - Video Games
Chapter 12 - The Internet
Chapter 13 - Mobile Devices and Apps
Chapter 14 - Interactive Cinema and Interactive TV
Chapter 15 -Smart Toys and Life-Like Robots
PART 5 Immersive Media
Chapter 16 - What Are Immersive Media?
Chapter 17 - VR, AR , and Mixed Reality (XR)
Chapter 18 - Immersive Narratives and Immersive Spaces
Chapter 19 - Screen-Based Immersion
PART 6 Career Considerations
Chapter 20 - Working as a Digital Storyteller
Project Index
Subject Index
About the author
Carolyn Handler Miller is one of the pioneering writers in the field of digital media, moving into the field after a successful career in TV and feature films. As a writer of New Media content, a profession she calls "digital storytelling," Carolyn’s projects include video games, virtual worlds, and Web series; intelligent toy systems; and transmedia entertainment. She was a contributing writer for the classic "Where in the World is Carmen San Diego?" series of games and wrote the interactive version of the original Toy Story movie for Disney and Pixar. She’s an international speaker on New Media (Rome, Paris, the UK, South Africa, Malaysia, and Australia) and works as a consultant on digital media projects for a roster of national and international clients.
Summary
Digital Storytelling shows you how to create immersive, interactive narratives across a multitude of platforms, devices, and media. From age-old storytelling techniques to cutting-edge development processes, this book covers creating stories for all forms of New Media, including transmedia storytelling, video games, mobile apps, and more.
