Interactive Fiction and the Reluctant Reader

1988 ◽  
Vol 77 (7) ◽  
pp. 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
David F. Lancy ◽  
Bernard L. Hayes
Keyword(s):  
Interactive Fiction ◽  
Reluctant Reader

Interactive Fiction: A New Literary Genre?

1989 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 341 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Ziegfeld
Keyword(s):  
Literary Genre ◽  
Interactive Fiction

Imaginative Desires and Interactive Fiction: On Wanting to Shoot Fictional Zombies

2019 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 241-251
Author(s):  
Nele Van De Mosselaer
Keyword(s):  
Mental State ◽  
Fictional Characters ◽  
Fictional Character ◽  
Interactive Fiction ◽  
Conceptual Tool ◽  
Human Psychology

Abstract What do players of videogames mean when they say they want to shoot zombies? Surely they know that the zombies are not real, and that they cannot really shoot them, but only control a fictional character who does so. Some philosophers of fiction argue that we need the concept of imaginative desires (or ‘i-desires’) to explain situations in which people feel desires towards fictional characters or desires that motivate pretend actions. Others claim that we can explain these situations without complicating human psychology with a novel mental state. Within their debates, however, these scholars exclusively focus on non-interactive fictions and children’s games of make-believe. In this paper, I argue that our experience of immersive, interactive fictions like videogames gives us cause to reappraise the concept of imaginative desires. Moreover, I describe how i-desires are a useful conceptual tool within videogame development and can shed new light on apparently immoral in-game actions.

scholarly journals Entering the Lady’s Dressing Room: Using feminist game design to look at and beyond the male gaze in Swift’s The Lady’s Dressing Room.

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Melanie Holm
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Game Design ◽  
Literary Translation ◽  
Game Playing ◽  
Male Gaze ◽  
Reading Practices ◽  
Interactive Fiction ◽  
Fictional World ◽  
Dressing Room ◽  
Digital Sphere

In 2017, I developed “Entering the Lady’s Dressing Room,” an Interactive Fiction game based on Jonathan Swift’s satiric poem “The Lady’s Dressing Room” (1734) to help my students become better readers of Restoration satire, and poetry generally. I did this for two reasons: to test whether the digital mediation of game-playing could help my undergraduate students more fruitfully engage with the poem, and 2) to theorize the similarities between poetic interpretation, the multiple narrative-making experience of game-playing. This article takes seriously the idea that poetry is play. It describes the circumstances that led to the development of the game and why Swift’s poem seemed an appropriate site for such experimentation. Crucial to game construction is a commitment to theories feminist game design that complement the poem’s own indictment of sexist determinism. With meditations on the affinity between poems and games, an examination of preceding experiments of literary translation into the ludic digital, details on game construction and local objectives, this article reflects on how digital mediation suggests a self-conscious mode of reading as a phenomenon of fictional world building. I don’t mean to suggest that this approach is necessarily appropriate for every poem or that every poem can be translated into the digital sphere in this way; rather, I want to share how the case of Entering the Lady’s Dressing Room suggests that the experience of translating a poem into Interactive Fiction can contribute to the formation of careful, detail-oriented reading practices in undergraduate readers. And poetry, if nothing else, is about the details.

scholarly journals Teaching Interactive Fiction for Undergraduate Students with the Aid of Information Technologies: An Experience Report

RENOTE ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 527-536
Author(s):  
Paula T. Palomino ◽  
Armando M. Toda ◽  
Wilk Oliveira ◽  
Luiz Rodrigues ◽  
Seiji Isotani
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Multimedia Learning ◽  
Experience Report ◽  
Digital Design ◽  
Interactive Fiction ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Creation

This paper presents an experience report concerning the use of a platformcalled “Storium” in the subject of “Interactive Fiction” for undergraduatestudents, from a Digital Design Course. The objective was to use the learningtheories of constructivism and multimedia learning to create an instructionalplan devised to teach the students how to create complex interactive narrativesand stories from a practical perspective. During the course, the students learnedthe subject’s theoretical concepts and applied them directly, creating their owninteractive fiction. The results from this research proposes a new approach, usingdigital tools whose resources provides an environment for the creation ofinteractive narratives. These narratives can be used to aid future designs ofinstructional plans for complex writing concepts.

scholarly journals Interactive Fiction Games: A Colossal Adventure

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (05) ◽  
pp. 7903-7910
Author(s):  
Matthew Hausknecht ◽  
Prithviraj Ammanabrolu ◽  
Marc-Alexandre Côté ◽  
Xingdi Yuan
Keyword(s):  
Autonomous Agents ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Human Intelligence ◽  
Commonsense Reasoning ◽  
Interactive Fiction ◽  
Language Understanding ◽  
Effect Change ◽  
Development Of Language ◽  
Action Spaces ◽  
Comprehensive Study

A hallmark of human intelligence is the ability to understand and communicate with language. Interactive Fiction games are fully text-based simulation environments where a player issues text commands to effect change in the environment and progress through the story. We argue that IF games are an excellent testbed for studying language-based autonomous agents. In particular, IF games combine challenges of combinatorial action spaces, language understanding, and commonsense reasoning. To facilitate rapid development of language-based agents, we introduce Jericho, a learning environment for man-made IF games and conduct a comprehensive study of text-agents across a rich set of games, highlighting directions in which agents can improve.

scholarly journals The Haunted School on Horror Hill

2010 ◽  
pp. 113-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Kee ◽  
Tamara Vaughan ◽  
Shawn Graham
Keyword(s):  
Social Skills ◽  
Personal Computers ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Authoring System ◽  
Interactive Fiction ◽  
Authoring Systems ◽  
Gaming Technology ◽  
Games And Simulations ◽  
Educational Potential

As gaming technology for personal computers has advanced over the last two decades, the text-adventures that predominated in the 1980s ceased to be commercially viable. However, the easy availability of powerful authoring systems developed by enthusiasts and distributed free over the Internet has led to a renaissance in text-adventures, now called “Interactive Fiction.” The educational potential in playing these text-based games and simulations was recognised when they were first popular; the new authoring systems now allow educators to explore the educational potential of creating these works. The authors present here a case-study using the ADRIFT authoring system to create a work of interactive fiction in a split grade 4/5 class (9 and 10 year-olds) in Quebec. They find that the process of creating the game helped improve literary and social skills amongst the students.

THE EVOLUTION OF INTERACTIVE FICTION

1990 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon Howell ◽  
Jane Yellowlees Douglas
Keyword(s):  
Interactive Fiction
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