"narrative interaction" is a valid phrase in written English.
It typically refers to a type of dialogue between two or more people in which stories are exchanged and interpreted. For example, a therapist might facilitate a narrative interaction with their patient to help them gain insight into their feelings and behavior.
In life, these are problems that can be solved by a different kind of narrative interaction than merely punching someone in the face – there is room for games to explore that.
This article discusses curricular and narrative interaction design requirements, presents the design of the Crystal Island learning environment, and describes its evolution through a series of pilots and field tests.
We will use a narrative interaction task informed by the MacArthur Story Stem Battery (MSSB) [ 168] and narrative-co-construction techniques.
Oxenfree's narrative interactions are vaguely in the Telltale model – when responding, you are given a number of options to choose from.
Individual processes of constructing health and illness narratives; Interactions with formal health care systems; Interactions with informal health care systems (including traditional and contemporary); and The mediating role of social support systems (including family and faith communities).
Bundled DLC and some subtle new features are introduced for this update, but essentially this remains the same – a game of brilliant, distinct promise where narrative and interaction share a sometimes awkward relationship.
The difficulty for this integration lies in an apparent opposition between traditional narrative and interaction: a traditional narrative involves an ordered sequence of events which is immutable, while in an interactive experience, the users create their own story.
"I wanted to push narrative driven interaction to its breaking point".
Another, more common move has been to dilute the explanatory claims of Marx's social theory and to emphasise the "relative autonomy" of aspects of social and economic life not directly related to Marx's central narrative of interaction between the development of the "forces of production" and the succession of "modes of production".
Like devices used in film and theatre, this forms part of an emerging design repertoire of strategies and devices to articulate and manipulate time and space and narrative in interactions and games for the shaping of experience.
Amid the slaughter and the fear, the narrative requires human interaction and emotional drama.
