Interactive fiction
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Interactive fiction uses a game structure to tell stories and teach concepts. Games have goals, challenges, rules, components, spaces, and core mechanics that set the system of play in motion, such as exploring, trading, or role-playing. Good games align their core mechanics with learning goals. Interactive fiction began with choose your own adventure books and expanded into text-based computer games. Modern examples include mobile apps that explore different topics through interactive storytelling and choices that appear to influence the narrative. Authoring tools like Twine and Inform 7 make it easy for students to create their own interactive fiction.
![Create a player experience thats
fun first. If you remove the fun,
[players] will feel like theyre being
preached to and its not a game
any more, theres no agency.
-Mary Flanagan, Tiltfactor](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/gie-150811232241-lva1-app6892/85/Interactive-fiction-77-320.jpg)
Interactive fiction
- 1. Interactive Fiction: Game Design Across the Curriculum Matthew Farber Steve Isaacs
- 4. Games Are INTERCONNECTED SYSTEMS 1. A goal 2. Challenge 3. Rules 4. Components 5. Space (The Magic Circle) 6. Core Mechanics
- 8. A Games Core Mechanics Set the System of Play in Motion Examples: Arguing Trading Voting Exploring Jumping Guessing Role-Playing Resource management (time is a resource) Press your luck
- 9. Game Design Grammar Games are designed with action verbs. Similarly, Blooms Taxonomy of Higher Order Thinking is built around verbs. Good games align core mechanics and learning goals.
- 10. Oregon Trail
- 12. Would you have students make the Globe Theater out of Popsicle sticks to teach about MacBeth?
- 14. A Brief History of Text-Based Gaming
- 15. Choose Your Own Adventure
- 20. Device 6
- 22. Mass Effect
- 23. Choices MUST Appear to Matter
- 25. The Walking Dead
- 31. Mission U.S.
- 36. Syrian Journey: Choose your own escape route http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-32057601
- 38. A Dark Room
- 39. A Dark Room
- 47. The Novelist
- 49. Parable of the Polygons
- 55. Spent
- 58. 80 Days
- 60. Frankenstein
- 61. Authoring Tools
- 62. Inform 7
- 66. Twine
- 67. InkleWriter
- 72. Fail/Lose State
- 75. Reward Reader When Chivalry Choices are Chosen
- 77. Create a player experience thats fun first. If you remove the fun, [players] will feel like theyre being preached to and its not a game any more, theres no agency. -Mary Flanagan, Tiltfactor
- 78. Questions?