CMPM 80K Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Jay David Bolter, Storyspace, International Game Developers Association
15 Sep 2016
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Literary hypertext a brief history and personal journey (eastgate"s perspective) Igda international game design association e3 (student scholarship) Renowned publisher of hypertext lit throughout the late 80s and 90s. Successful largely because it was able to position within print publishing tradition. Created by michael joyce and jay bolter (1987) Later sold to eastgate, maintained by mark bernstein. Many pop hypertexts of the 90s were written in storyspace. We need to consider: (4 criteria for games/software) Hyperdrama sleep no more (2009) audience is wearing masks, while actors wander through several rooms, audience follows. On a train in turkey sex assault making serious games is hard. Hard to keep audience engaged in reading/experience a negative emotion. Make them care for the character spend time with the character. Between the cracks interactive book framing is everything! (set audience expectations right) Elsewhere written in twiney jam 300 word limit visual design can speak too.
