Chris Crawford on Interactive Storytelling (73 page)

script editing and,
287–293

subsituation characters and,
292–293

threadtests and rehearsals and,
280–282
,
286–287

Development factor criteria (personality models),
182–185

behavior ties,
185

completeness,
182

conciseness,
183

orthogonality,
183–184
,
184
f

overspecificity,
185

overviews and summaries of,
182

Dichotomous words,
100–101

Digital storytelling,
338–339

Directed graphs,
128

Director agents,
326–327

DirObject and subject privacy,
220–221

Discipline,
35–36

Discontinuity (temporal),
22–23

Disgust/Arousal,
189–191

Disinformation and lies,
238–240

benefit gains via misdirections and,
239

defensive denial and,
240

intent to harm relationships and,
238–239

overviews and summaries of,
238

Donikian, Stephane,
329

Dr. K- Project (Rickman, Brandon),
319–320

Dragon’s Lair,
98–100
,
130

Drama architecture (interactive),
329

Drama managers,
201–216

dramatic templates and,
205

leader verbs and,
204–205

listening component of,
203–204

overview variables for,
203–204
. See also Overview variables

overviews and summaries of,
201–203
,
216

as personal narrative agents,
329–330

player correction and,
209–212

required functions of,
202–203

scoring systems and,
212–214

speaking component of,
205–208
. See also Speaking component (drama managers)

story grammars and,
205

thinking component of,
204–205

tragedy and,
214–216

DraMachina (Donikian, Stephane),
329

Dramatic resolution (ideal scales),
59–60

Dramatic templates,
205

Dramatica,
339–340

Dropping the fourth wall concept,
208

Dullness,
204

Eastgate Systems,
337

Economics and verb vs. noun thinking,
93
,
95

Editing (scripts),
287–293

Einstein’s theories vs. Maxwell’s theories,
73–75
,
74
f

Elephant’s Memory language,
177

Emergent phenomena concept,
137–138

Emergent story concept,
137–138

Engagement factors,
26

Engines,
251–252
,
297–306

Erasmatron,
297–306
. See also Erasmatron

interference,
251–252

storytelling,
305–306

Environmental strategies,
135–144
,
205–206

design foundation extensions and,
138–142
. See also Design foundation extensions

emergence and emergent stories,
137–138

environmental manipulation,
205–206

overviews and summaries of,
135–136
,
144

of Sims,
142–144

Environments (development),
267–294
. See also Development environments

Erasmatron,
297–306

actors and,
300

color-coding for,
300

data types for,
300

engine for,
299–305

events and,
300

flags (boolean) and,
300

groups and,
300
,
305–306

historical background of,
198–299

inclination formulae for,
302–304

movement and space for,
304–305

numbers and,
300

overviews and summaries of,
297
,
305–306

plan execution for,
304

prognostications for,
306

props and,
300

roles for,
301

scripts for,
301–302

spying features of,
305–306

stages and,
300

storytelling engine of,
305–306

time concepts for,
304

verbs and,
300

Evaluation (personality models),
200

Events and verbs,
217–226
,
231
. See also Verbs

data structures for,
224–226
. See also Data structures

Erasmatron and,
300

events,
221–224
,
231

gossip systems and,
231

overviews and summaries of,
217–218
,
226

verb counts,
218–219

verb handling (specific vs. generalized),
219–221

Evolutionary school (prognostication),
344–348
. See also Prognostications

fairy tale marketing and,
345–346

market factors and marketing,
345–348

overviews and summaries of,
344

wrong themes and,
345

wrong verbs and,
344

Excalibur,
298–299

Execution,
262–266
,
304

deferred vs. immediate,
262–266
,
265
f

plans (Erasmatron),
304

Experience management,
315–317

Exploration,
204

Exponential weighting factors,
117–118

Extensions (design foundations),
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,
138–140

Extrapolations (game),
48

Façade (Mateas, Michael and Stern, Andrew),
318–319

Factories and verb vs. noun thinking,
94–96

Fairclough, Chris R.,
156

Fairy tale marketing,
345–346

FDBS (Fuzzy Decision Based System),
321–323

Fear/Anger,
189–190

Fiction (interactive),
336–337

Figa, Elizabeth,
174
,
317

First-person personality variables,
186–188

Flags (boolean),
300

Flat data structures,
226–227

Foldback schemes,
126–129
,
126
f,
128
f

Formulae,
275–280
,
302–304

attraction,
277–278

canned,
275–277
,
277
f

inclination,
302–304

tuning,
278–280
,
279
f

FourParty situations,
220

Free will vs. determinism,
86–89

Full-duplex factors,
27

Full prompts,
289–292

Fuzzy Decision Based System (FDBS),
321–323

Fuzzy logic,
310–312

Game extrapolations,
48

Games people and programmers (techies),
69–71

Gates, Bill,
210

Generalized vs. specific verb handling,
219–221

AllAudience situations and,
220

AnyAudience situations and,
220

AnybodyBut situations and,
221

Audience variables,
220

CheekByJowl situations and,
221

data structures for,
219–220

FourParty situations and,
220

Import variables,
219

MentalState situations and,
220

Name variables,
219

overviews and summaries of,
219–220

RequireWitness situations and,
220

Subject and DirObject privacy and,
220–221

SujectAndDirObjectOnly situations and,
220

ThreeParty situations and,
220

TimeToExecute variables,
220

TimeToPrepare variables,
219

variables for,
219–221

Generic research-related issues,
308–313
. See also Research-related issues

Glassner, Andrew,
50–52
,
63
,
350–351