Chris Crawford on Interactive Storytelling (77 page)

deferred reactions and,
264–266

hard-wired vs. soft-wired approaches to,
256–257

options selection for,
256–257

overviews and summaries of,
255–256
,
266

plan execution (deferred vs. immediate),
262–266
,
265
f

roles,
257–262
,
261f–262f

Sets (contextual),
321–323

Seventh Guest,
129

Shakespeare, William,
214–215

Sheldon, Lee,
350–351

Shifts (personality),
207

Siboot,
173–174
,
174
f,
298–299

Sierra Online,
336–337

Simple non-effective strategies,
123–134

branching trees,
124–126
,
124
f

constipated stories,
130

foldback schemes,
126–129
,
126
f,
128
f

kill ‘em if they stray approaches,
130

overviews and summaries of,
123
,
134

storified games,
130–133
,
131
f

Sims,
142–144

Simulations,
341

Situations,
220–221

AllAudience,
220

AnyAudience,
220

AnybodyBut,
221

CheekByJowl,
221

FourParty,
220

MentalState,
220

RequireWitness,
220

SubjectOnly,
220

SubjectAndDirObjectOnly,
220

ThreeParty,
220

Size-related issues,
141

Smarter vs. more agents,
140–141

Smith, Randy,
298

Snow, C. P.,
67

Social modules,
4

Society for the Promotion of Adventure Games (SPAG),
337

Soft-wired vs. hard-wired approaches,
256–257

Space and movement,
304–305

Spatial thinking,
20–22

Spatial-visual modules,
4

Speaking component (drama managers),
205–208
. See also Drama managers

dropping the fourth wall concept and,
208

environmental manipulation and,
205–206

goal injection and,
208–209

overviews and summaries of,
205

personality shifts and,
207

ticking clock of doom concept and,
207–208

Specific vs. generalized verb handling,
219–221

AllAudience situations and,
220

AnyAudience situations and,
220

AnybodyBut situations and,
221

Audience variables,
220

CheekByJowl situations and,
221

data structures for,
219–221

FourParty situations and,
220

Import variables,
219

MentalState situations and,
220

Name variables,
219

overviews and summaries of,
219–220

RequireWitness situations and,
220

Subject and DirObject privacy and,
220–221

SubjectOnly situations and,
220

SubjectAndDirObjectOnly situations and,
220

ThreeParty situations and,
220

TimeToExecute variables,
220

TimeToPrepare variables,
219

variables for,
219–221

Spectacle,
18–19

Speed,
37–39

Spying features (Erasmatron),
305–306

Stages,
300

Star Trek,
22

Star Wars movies,
21
,
85–86
,
106–109
,
138–140

Stephens, Mitchell,
19–20
,
23

Stern, Andrew,
318–319

Stories and storytelling components,
3–24
. See also Storytelling-interactivity pathways

constipated story strategies,
130

data-driven strategies and,
145

development of,
4–13
,
5
f,
7f–13f

mental modules,
4–13
,
5
f,
7f–13f
. See also Mental modules

nature of stories,
13–19
. See also Nature of stories

research-related issues of,
321–323

spatial thinking,
20–22

story grammars,
205
,
327–328
. See also Grammars

story projection,
317

story traces,
317

storylines,
156–159

storytelling engines,
305–306

storyworld exploration and,
204

temporal discontinuity,
22–23

visual tyranny and,
19–20

Storified game strategies,
130–133
,
131
f

Storytelling-interactivity pathways.

combined interactive storytelling components,
45–64

interactivity components,
25–44

overviews and summaries of,
xvi–xvii

stories and storytelling components,
3–24

Storyworlds,
204
,
212–214

Arthurian,
212–214

exploration of,
204

Strategies.

data-driven,
144–160

environmental,
135–144

language-based,
161–178

non-effective simple,
123–134

overviews and summaries of,
xvi–xvii

Strong structures,
14

Structures,
14
,
141–142
,
224–227
,
289–290

Chomskian,
224

data,
224–227

flat,
226–227

journey,
141–142

menu,
289–290

recursive,
224

strong,
14

Subject and DirObject privacy,
220–221

Sublanguages and meanings,
170–176

Subsituation characters,
292–293

Substories,
58–59

SubjectOnly situations,
220

SubjectAndDirObjectOnly situations,
220

Summaries and overviews.

of abstraction,
81–82
,
89

of anticipation,
245–246
,
253

of applications,
xvi–xvii

of combined interactive storytelling components,
45–63

of core technologies,
xvi–xvii

of data-driven strategies,
145
,
159

of development environments,
267
,
293

of drama managers,
201–203

of environmental strategies,
135–136
,
144

of HistoryBooks and Gossip systems,
227
,
243

of interactivity components,
25–26
,
44

of language-based strategies,
161–162
,
178

of non-effective simple strategies,
123
,
134

of personality models (character-driven approaches),
181–182
,
200

of prognostications,
343–351

of related constructs,
335–342

of research-related issues,
307–308
,
333

of roles and sequencing,
255–256
,
266

of stories and storytelling components,
3
,
23

of storytelling-interactivity pathways,
xvi–xvii

of strategies,
xvi–xvii

of thinking styles,
xvi–xvii

of Two Cultures problem,
67–69
,
79

of verbs and events,
217–218
,
226

Swift, Jonathan,
215

Syllogisms,
103

Synergy (design foundation extensions),
142

Synonyms,
173–174

Szilas, Nicholas,
323–326

Tale construction,
231–234
. See also Gossip systems

TaleSpin (Meehan, James),
327–328

Tarau, Paul,
174
,
317

Tasks,
323–326

Techies (programmers and games people),
69–71

Templates (dramatic),
205

Temporal discontinuity,
22–23

Text adventures/graphic adventures,
336–337

Themes (wrong),
345

Thespis,
338

Thinking and thinking styles.

abstraction and,
81–90

drama managers and,
204–205