Narrative_Design

Exploring Media & Environmental Storytelling

Play homework games

Review Branching IF together

Find a partner and take turns sharing your homework. Have something to take notes with.

After you play, write these things down and discuss with the designer:

• Describe/summarize your experience.
• Describe anything which stood out (For example: Something that you liked, or that you thought was successful)
• Did you encounter any issues that hindered your experience? (For example: Was anything unclear? Did anything seem unfinished/unresolved? Any other technical issues like choices which didn’t work?)
• Were there any notable spelling or grammar issues that you can recall?

Exploring Media in Web-based Ink Games

Today we’re going to focus on some of the web-specific features that will allow you to do things like incorporate audiovisual media or connect to external websites.

Cheatsheet for Ink

Here is a cheatsheet which will be updated to include all things Ink that we cover in this class. The Ink Manual is also great and I would highly recommend getting comfortable with it to find examples of advanced Ink usage.

Today, we’ll be focusing on the basics:

• Tags
• CLEAR and RESTART
• IMAGE (Adding images)
• AUDIO & AUDIOLOOP

Media files for the demo

Download here

Some Things to Look Out For!

• Tags will not work in the Inky editor.
• Images don’t accurately determine length of game displayed in the browser and can quickly become cut off (How to fix: Add page breaks).
• Exporting for Web will replace all files in the exported folder. Use Export Story.js option instead to make changes.
• Changes to audio not working? Try restarting the Ink game or closing/re-opening the webpage.

Net Art

Not games, Net Art!

• Uncle Roger by Judy Malloy (1986). (Disk image)
• my boyfriend came back from the war by Olia Lialina (1996)

Environmental Storytelling

Environmental storytelling is an approach to narrative design that relies on describing a space and the objects contained within it. It asks the question, “what happened here?”

Tonight’s notes on environmental storytelling are here.

Homework

Project 1: Interactive Fiction

Project Description

Create a short interactive fiction (IF) game that can be completed in 10–15 minutes and features no more than three significant endings. You may build a text-only experience or incorporate images and/or sound.

Completed game due after Fall Break (10/21)

Full project description here.

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