Responsible for creating the tools and underlying mechanisms of an IDS systems. The tools are used by the author to create the content of the storyworld. The developer and author together are called the providers.
Published in Chapter:
The Digital Campfire: An Ontology of Interactive Digital Storytelling
Jouni Smed (University of Turku, Finland), Tomi “bgt” Suovuo (University of Turku, Finland), Natasha Trygg (University of Turku, Finland), Petter Skult (Åbo Akademi University, Finland), and Harri Hakonen (Independent Researcher, Finland)
Copyright: © 2019
|Pages: 22
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-5715-9.ch007
Abstract
Interactive digital storytelling (IDS) allows a human user to become an active part in a story and to affect how the story unfolds. To understand IDS systems, we need to consider the partakers present in them as well as their roles and interconnections. In this chapter, the authors discern four partaking entities—interactor, author, developer, and storyworld—and describe both their affiliated sub-entities as well as their relationship to one another. Based on both reviewing relevant literature and analyzing existing IDS systems, the ontology presented here provides a cohesive view into the current state of both theoretical and practical research.