November 2009
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moving on out...
This blog’s only been here for about two weeks, but I’m sad to say we’re moving it to Wordpress.
We chose tumblr because of it’s beautiful simplicity, but that simplicity has already turned out to be too limiting for what we’re doing here.
So check out our new site at http://interactivity.org.uk. All our research and ideas will be posted there, plus a whole new...
October 2009
12 posts
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Where Stories End and Games Begin →
An accessible piece questioning the compatibility of games and stories. Can usefully be read by replacing the points he makes about games to any fully interactive work.
Click the title to follow the link.
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First Manifesto (11th November 2008)
I’d forgotten about this - this was actually our first attempt to qualify the type of interactivity we’re interested in, in November last year. We’ve developed this on since then, but thoughts/challenges/queries are very welcome.
Our latest attempt can be found here. You can see how it’s changed after a year of practice and debate.
We’re trying to create interactive...
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Roger Foss’ Feature in The Stage against interactivity in theatre: It’s play time: How much interactivity can one take? And the only response I could find on the internet, a great defence of the genre: Fussing Over Foss Did anybody catch the BAC Directors’ response the following week? And any thoughts on this?
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“In any form of interactive storytelling the audience will derail rather than...”
– www.pause-effect.com/excerpts_p03.html, in reference to MMORPRGs. I disagree. Discuss.
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"Reflections about Interactivity" by Luis O. Arata →
Very in-depth and paper about interactivity in general - interactive works, interactive views, ‘play’, etc.
Fascinating and useful - if slightly dry.
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Electronic Book Review →
reblogged from untitled-project:
A site full of articles (loosely) about the philosophy, debates, and art of making and playing games - mostly computer games.
Provides a good way of thinking about elements of this project, lots of ideas, and a useful set of terminology.
(I’ll link to specific articles later on)
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Choose Your Own Adventure book - mapped out →
Interesting depiction of how they worked.
See also en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choose_Your_Own_Adventure
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Three's Company & Inter-reactivity →
Blog post from Three’s Company about inter-reactivity, with links and photos
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Second Manifesto (9th October 2009)
This represents Three’s Company’s first second attempt to write out a complete definition of this particular style of interactivity. We’re currently calling it either ‘inter-reactivity’ or ‘narrative interactivity’.
This definition is most likely change. Feedback and thoughts are welcome.
A style of theatre where:
A clear narrative1 2 runs...
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Yaz's dissertation on narrative in interactive... →
username: interactivity; password: aud.
Written May 2008.
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The Author was an interactive piece of theatre by...
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BAC's interactive theatre season →