Chris Crawford on Interactive Storytelling (78 page)

noun thinking,
92–97

overviews and summaries of,
xvi–xvii

spatial thinking,
20–22

Two Cultures problem and,
67–80

verb thinking,
91–120

Third options,
61–62

Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations (Polti, George),
156–159

Threadkillers,
281

Threadtests and rehearsals,
280–282
,
286–287

ThreeParty situations,
220

Ticking clock of doom concept,
207–208

Time concepts,
304

Time flow (unbroken),
62–63

TimeToExecute,
220

TimeToPrepare,
219

Traces (story),
317

Tragedy,
214–216

Tree analyses,
252

Tree (branching) strategies,
124–126
,
124
f

Trust,
186

Trust & Betrayl,
208

Tuning formulae,
278–280
,
279
f

Twain, Mark,
21
,
141

Two Cultures problem,
67–80

artsies (new media people) and,
72–76

bubble intellectualism and,
73–75
,
74
f

cross-disciplinary futility and,
75–76

Einstein’s theories vs. Maxwell’s theories and,
73–75
,
74
f

exhortations for,
77–79

neurophysological basis of,
76–77

overviews and summaries of,
67–69
,
79

prognostications for,
77–79

Snow, C. P. and,
67

techies (programmers and games people) and,
69–71

Typographic conventions,
xviii

Tyranny (visual),
19–20

Unbroken time flow,
62–63

Understanding Comics (McCloud, Scott),
313

Unipolar vs. bipolar personality variables,
188–189

Universal functions (data-driven strategies),
153–156

User choice,
40–42

Value setting criteria,
118–120

Values,
323–326

Variables. See also under individual topics

Audience,
220

Import,
219

Name,
219

overview,
203–204

personality,
186–199
. See also Personality variables

for specific vs. generalized verb handling,
219–221

TimeToExecute,
220

TimeToPrepare variables,
219

Verb thinking,
91–120
. See also Verbs

artist’s mathematical palettes and,
112–120
. See also Artist’s mathematical palettes

computers and,
94
,
96–97

economics and,
93
,
95–97

factories and,
94–96

language and,
93–95

military science and,
94–95

multimedia case study of,
97–100
,
99
f

vs. noun thinking,
92–97
. See also Noun thinking

overviews and summaries of,
91–93
,
120

physics and,
93–95

yin-yang concept and,
92–97

Verbs,
91–120
,
217–226

anticipation and,
250–251

choices of,
250–251

counts of,
218–219

data structures for,
224–226
. See also Data structures

Erasmatron and,
300

events and,
217–226

evolutionary school (prognostication) and,
344

leader verbs and drama managers,
204–205

overviews and summaries of,
217–218
,
226

verb handling (specific vs. generalized),
219–221
. See also Specific vs. generalized verb handling

verb thinking,
91–120
. See also Verb thinking

wrong,
344

Violence acceptability,
204

Virtual Storyteller project,
326–327

Virtue,
187–188
,
191
,
194–195

VisiCalc,
270

Visual-spatial modules,
4

Visual Thesaurus,
174

Visual tyranny,
19–20

Vocabularies,
164–169

Volatility,
186–188
,
191

Von Clausevitz, Carl,
40–41

Wachowski brothers,
20

Weighting factors

additive,
115

exponential,
117–118

multiplicative,
116–117

overviews and summaries of,
115
,
250–251

personality model example of,
113–114

value setting criteria,
118–120

value setting criteria for,
118–120

Weyhrauch, Peter,
314–315

Wing Commander,
132

Wisdom,
188

Woggles,
314

Woods, Don,
336

WordNet,
173–174
,
178
,
317

Wrong themes,
345

Wrong verbs,
344

WYSIWYG word processors,
218

Zdybel, Rob,
336

1
.
taurine
: of, or relating to, the bull;
copro-
: a combining form meaning dung, excrement, or feces.

1
. Mitchell Stephens,
The Rise of the Image the Fall of the Word
(Oxford University Press, 1998; ISBN 0195098293).

1
. Mark S. Meadows,
Pause & Effect: The Art of Interactive Narrative
(New Riders, 2002; ISBN 0735711712).

1
. Andy Cameron,
www.hrc.wmin.ac.uk/hrc/theory/dissimulations/t.3.html
.

2
. Michael Murtaugh,
http://ic.media.mit.edu/Publications/Thesis/murtaughMS/HTML/InteractiveNarrative/InteractiveNarrative.html
.

3
. Andrew Glassner,
www.glassner.com
.

1
. C. P. Snow,
The Two Cultures
(Cambridge University Press, 1993; ISBN 0521457300).

1
.
www.indiana.edu/~iupress/books/0-253-35994-5.shtml

2
. Vladimir Propp,
Morphology of the Folktale
(University of Texas, Austin: 1996; ISBN 0-292-78376-0).

3
.
www.cs.tcd.ie/publications/tech-reports/reports.03/TCD-CS-2003-43.pdf

4
. Georges Polti, “The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations,” in
The Writer
, 1999 (ISBN 0-87116-109-5).

1
. John B. Carroll, Peter Davies, and Barry Richman,
The American Heritage Word Frequency Book
(Houghton Mifflin, 1971; ISBN 0395135702).

2
. WordNet:
www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn
.

3
. Visual Thesaurus:
www.visualthesaurus.com/index.jsp
.

4
. Basic English:
http://ogden.basic-english.org/basiceng.html
.

5
. Bliss:
http://home.istar.ca/~bci/
.

6
. The Elephant’s Memory:
www.apple.com/education/LTReview/spring99/elephant/
.

1
. Brenda Laurel,
Computers as Theater
(Addison-Wesley, 1991; ISBN 0201510480).

1
. Dr. Joseph Bates, Oz Project:
http//:www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/oz/web/oz.html
.

2
. Andrew S. Gordon and Nicholas V. Iuppa, Experience Management:
www.ict.usc.edu/~gordon/TIDSE03.PDF
.

3
. Elizabeth Figa and Paul Tarau, WordNet:
http://logic.csci.unt.edu/tarau/research/
,
http://logic.csci.unt.edu/vista/index.htm
, and
www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn
.

4
. Michael Mateas and Andrew Stern, Façade:
www.quvu.net/interactivestory.net/
.

5
. Brandon Rickman, Dr. K- Project:
www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/michaelm/www/nidocs/Rickman.html
.

6
. Teong Joo Ong and John Leggett, HEFTI: http://dl.aace.org/12719.

7
. Nicholas Szilas, IDTension:
www.idtension.com
.