Interactive Narrative

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InkleWriter

A lovely tool for creating "unfolding stories" that get longer, interactive narrative style, but different. You can add paragraphs, choices and add image URLs (which is interesting, because that means you *could* use almost any image out there on the web.

For developers, stories can be output in .json format, meaning *real writers* could use this tool to "tell a story" and developers might incorporate it into a game easily. Interesting.


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Adventuron

A tool for kids 8yo+ to learn coding an interactive narrative game.


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Storytelling Resources

Huge collection of links to resources and tools related to storytelling.


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Twine

Write interactive narrative fiction (the online version). Create your own adventure game!


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Ink

Create textual interactive narrative adventure games easily.


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Episode

Interactive fiction platform. Not tried this yet.


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EKO

Create interactive narrative videos. Fab!


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Study Crafter

An amazing tool to create interactive games with a flow-coding interface, but equally could be used to make training materials. The primary use for this tool is to collect research data about what choices people made.

Free.


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UltraOutliner

Unusual Russian tool for designing interactive narratives or story plots. You enter characters, and locations and plot points, linking them together.

At the end, you can export as a .csv file. 


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Polytopias

An article introducing the ideas of polytopias (and how to get there) and world-building... linked with sci-fi and interactive narratives too.


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Made With Twine

A huge collection, many free of games, comics and novels written with Twine.


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The Unknown

A hypertextual novel, about creating a hypertextual novel


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Actual Real Time Machine

A virtual time-machine experience.


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The Temple Of No

Fun and fantastic example of what can be done with the form of interactive narrative in Twine.

 


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Emma's Journey

Interactive narrative about the environment


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Models of Interactive Narratives

Nice explanation of how interactive narrative games/experiences can be structured.


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The Truth Hurts

The Truth Hurts is an audio adventure game on Spotify.


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Interview with Meghna Jayanth

During her decade in the gaming industry, Jayanth, a British-Indian immigrant, has become known for highlighting the effects of British colonialism as much as for her award-winning work on games such as inkle’s 80 Days and Guerilla Games’ Horizon: Zero Dawn.


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AI Dungeon(s)

AI generates text adventure dungeons for you to play.


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IFDB

Database of interactive fiction (IF), lots available for free or as apps.


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Ela-TV

Brilliant, video heavy interactive narrative created with Twine. The story of ELA takes place in a fictive scenario in near-future. In this future the so-called ALGOs are responsible for the administration of cities.


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Old Operating Theatre

Probably not for the sqeamish (I am, so got to page two) but it's an interactive narrative about a victorian operating theatre.

Warning: This story is inspired by a real historical case and contains graphic descriptions of injury and surgery.


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Limeric Night

Limerick-based interactive narrative horror puzzle


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Bandersnatch

Bandersnatch was an interactive movie by Charlie Brooker available on Netflix.

From Wikipedia: In Bandersnatch, viewers make decisions for the main character, the young programmer Stefan Butler (Fionn Whitehead), who is adapting a fantasy choose-your-own-adventure novel into a video game in 1984.

 

 


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The Uber Game

Can you make it in the gig economy?


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The Truth Hurts

THE TRUTH HURTS is a choose-your-own-adventure book in Spotify.


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Made With Twine

Interactive narrative games made with Twine. Go play with these then make your own.


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One Last Beat

Warning. Very gory/violent/crazy interactive video story. Crazy!


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The Warden Game

Who has power in prison and how do they exercise it? The Warden Game provides an unexpected way of thinking about these questions. Rather than a total institution of some predictability, the prison turns out to be susceptible to different forms of activity by incarcerated people, their families and loved ones, journalists, guards, judges, state legislators, and political appointees.


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A REVIEW OF NINE INTERACTIVE NARRATIVE SYSTEMS

An academic paper about interactive narrative systems.