Digital Storytelling: A Creator’s Guide to Interactive Entertainment
Digital Storytelling: A Creator’s Guide to Interactive Entertainment examines narrative design for interactive digital media. Carolyn Handler Miller explores how interactivity affects story structure, characters, dialogue, and audience participation.
This digital PDF edition contains 472 pages and is available as an instant download. It offers a detailed reference for writers, designers, project managers, students, and researchers.
The book combines historical discussion, development guidance, media analysis, case studies, and career considerations for digital storytelling.
Book Overview
Digital Storytelling is a Technology book by Carolyn Handler Miller. Published by Focal Press in 2004, it examines interactive storytelling across digital entertainment formats and related media.
The book explains how classic narrative techniques can work with interactive technologies. It also considers digital projects used for entertainment, teaching, informing, promoting, and training.
What You’ll Discover Inside
- A brief history of interactive storytelling and the growth of digital entertainment.
- The effects of interactivity on characters, dialogue, emotions, structure, and audience involvement.
- Development processes for creating interactive projects from concept through production.
- Discussion of video games, massively multiplayer online games, websites, interactive television, and cross-media productions.
- Coverage of smart toys, wireless devices, interactive cinema, immersive environments, DVDs, and kiosks.
- Considerations for children’s projects, digital storytelling careers, and creating a professional showcase.
- A glossary, additional readings, subject index, and project index.
Why Digital Storytelling Matters
This book documents the creative and practical challenges of building narratives for interactive media. Its scope connects storytelling concepts with the development of digital entertainment and other interactive projects.
Its structure makes the subject useful to both learners and working professionals. Historical chapters, media-specific discussions, development guidance, and career material place interactive narrative within a broad digital media context.
Book Details
| Author | Carolyn Handler Miller |
|---|---|
| Title | Digital Storytelling: A Creator’s Guide to Interactive Entertainment |
| Format | |
| File Type | |
| File Size | 6.7 MB |
| File Size Bytes | 7057734 |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 472 |
| Publisher | Focal Press |
| Imprint | Focal Press is an imprint of Elsevier |
| Publication Date | August 5, 2004 |
| Edition | 1st |
| ISBN-10 | 0240805100 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0240805108 |
| ISBN | 0-240-80510-0 |
| Dimensions | 7.5 x 1 x 9.5 inches |
| Rating | 4.6 out of 5 stars |
| Review Count | 15 |
| Best Sellers Rank | #5,441,669 in Books |
| Category Rank | #1,256 in Video Game Art (Books) |
| Category Rank | #1,533 in Digital Art |
| Category Rank | #3,196 in Computer & Internet Game Strategy Guides |
| Price | EUR 8.53 |
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Verified Bibliographic Details
| PDF Metadata Title | Digital Storytelling : A Creator's Guide to Interactive Entertainmen |
|---|---|
| PDF Metadata Author | Miller, Carolyn Handler. |
| PDF Metadata Subject | TEAM DDU |
| Copyright | Copyright 2004, Elsevier, Inc. |
| Print Length | 472 pages |
| Source Listing Format | Paperback |
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