Chris Crawford on Interactive Storytelling (72 page)

Animal tales,
148

Anticipation,
245–264

importance of,
248–250

logical interferences and,
251–253
. See also Logical interferences

overviews and summaries of,
245–246
,
253

verb choices for,
250–251

weighting and,
250–251

Antonyms,
173–174

AnyAudience situations,
220

AnybodyBut situations,
221

Applications.

Erasmatron,
297–306

overviews and summaries of,
xvi–xvii

prognostications for,
343–352

related constructs and,
335–342

research-related issues of,
307–334

Arguments (preset),
289–292

Arousal/Disgust and Arousal/Revulsion,
189–191

Arthurian storyworlds,
212–214
,
222–224
,
245–253
,
298–299

Artist’s mathematical palettes,
120–120

additive weighting factors,
115

exponential weighting factors,
117–118

multiplicative weighting factors,
116–117

overviews and summaries of,
112–115

personality model example of,
113–114

value setting criteria,
118–120

Artsies (new media people),
72–76

Atari,
336

Attraction formulae,
277–278

Attractiveness,
191

Audience variables,
220

Autofilling concept,
175

Automata (cellular),
137–138

Automatic relationship adjustments,
194–196

Auxillary words,
170

AVEIRO project,
326–327

Awareness factors,
350–351

Basic English system,
176–177

Basic storylines (data-driven strategies),
156–159

Bates, Joseph,
314

Behavior ties,
185

Berndtsson, Karin,
327

Bernstein, Mark,
337–338

Bidirectional communication factors,
27

Bipolar vs. unipolar personality variables,
188–189

Black-and-white vision,
311

Bliss symbolic language,
177–177
f

Bluth, Don,
98–99

Boolean flags,
300

Boolean thinking,
309–313
,
310f–311f
,
313
f

Boring vs. interesting decision generation,
53–56

Branching tree strategies,
124–126
,
124
f

Bubble intellectualism,
73–75
,
74
f

Calculations (personality variables),
196–199

Cameron, Andy,
49–52
,
63

Canned formulae,
275–277
,
277
f

CardShark,
338

Carmack, John,
71

Cavazza, Marc,
330–333
,
331f–332f

Cellular automata,
137–138

Change-related factors,
28

Character Development and Storytelling for Games (Sheldon, Lee),
350–351

Character-driven approaches (personality models),
181–200

automatic relationship adjustments and,
194–196

development factor criteria for,
182–185
. See also Development factor criteria (personality models)

evaluation of,
200

examples of,
199–200

overviews and summaries of,
181–182
,
200

personality variables for,
186–190
. See also Personality variables

Charles, Fred,
330–333
,
331f–332
f

CheekByJowl situations,
221

Choices,
17
,
40–42

Chomskian data structures,
224

Color-coding,
300

Colossal Cave Adventure (Crowther, Will),
336

Combinational synergy (design foundation extensions),
142

Combined interactive storytelling components,
45–64

creative options,
62

decision generation (interesting vs. boring),
53–56

differing fundamentals of,
52–57

dramatic resolution (ideal scales),
59–60

game extrapolations,
48

interactivzed movies,
48–49

interest building techniques,
53–57

overviews and summaries of,
45–63

plot-interactivity comparisons,
49–52

real time play,
62–63

substories,
58–59

third options,
61–62

unbroken time flow and,
62–63

ComeFrom analyses,
282–285
,
285
f

Communication-related factors,
28

Compensation,
276

Competitive advantage incentives,
42–43

Completeness,
182

Components (stories),
145

Computers and verb vs. noun thinking,
94
,
96–97

Conciseness,
183

Conflict,
16

Conlangs (constructed languages),
178

Connectivity data,
146–148

Constipated story strategy,
130

Constructed languages (conlangs),
178

Context settings,
280

Contextual sets,
321–323

Conventions, typographic,
xviii

Core technologies.

anticipation,
245–264

development environments,
267–294

drama managers,
201–216

HistoryBooks and Gossip systems,
217–226

overviews of,
xvi–xvii

personality models (character-driven approaches),
181–200

roles and sequencing,
265–266

verbs and events,
217–226

Correction (players),
209–212

Counts (verbs),
218–219

Crawford’s First Rule of Software Design,
52–53

Creative options,
62

Cross-disciplinary futility,
75–76

Crowther, Will,
336

Cruciality,
277

Cunningham, Pádraig,
156

CYC project,
312

Cyclic processes,
203

Data-driven strategies,
144–160

Aarne-Thompson Types of the Folktale and,
148–153

basic storylines for,
156–159

connectivity data of,
146–148

Morphology of the Folktale (Propp, Vladimir),
153–156

motifs for,
148–159

overviews and summaries of,
145
,
159

story components of,
145

Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations (Polti, George),
156–159

universal functions for,
153–156

Data structures,
224–227

Chomskian,
224

flat,
226–227

recursive,
224

for specific vs. generalized verb handling,
219–220

for verbs and events,
224–226

Data types (Erasmatron),
300

Debuggers,
286–287

Decision generation (interesting vs. boring),
53–56

Deferred reactions,
264–266

Deferred vs. immediate plan execution,
262–266
,
265
f

Degrees of interactivity,
36–42

choice and,
40–42

depth and,
39–40

overviews and summaries of,
36–37

speed and,
37–39

Depressive/Manic,
191

Depth,
39–40

Design foundation extensions,
138–142

for agents (more vs. smarter),
140–141

combinational synergy of,
142

environmental strategies and. See Environmental strategies

for journey structures,
141–142

overviews and summaries of,
138

for props,
140

for puzzles,
141

for size of three-dimensional worlds,
139–140

Determinism vs. free will,
86–89

Deus Ex,
341

Development environments,
267–294

algorithmic capabilities for,
271–280
. See also Algorithmic capabilities

ComeFrom analyses and,
282–285
,
285
f

context settings and,
280

debuggers and,
286–287

elements of,
271–293

historical background of,
268–271

importance of,
271

inverse parsing and,
288–289

menu structures and,
289–292

overviews and summaries of,
267
,
293

preset arguments with full prompts and,
289–292