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"Interactive narrative systems attempt to tell stories to players capable of changing the direction and/or outcome of the story. Despite the growing importance of multiplayer social experiences in games, little research has focused on multiplayer interactive narrative experiences. We performed a preliminary study to determine how human directors design and execute multiplayer interactive story experiences in online and real world environments. Based on our observations, we developed the Multiplayer Storytelling Engine that manages a story world at the individual and group levels. Our flexible story representation enables human authors to naturally model multiplayer narrative experiences. An intelligent execution algorithm detects when the author's story representation fails to account for player behaviors and automatically generates a branch to restore the story to the authors' original intent, thus balancing authorability against robust multiplayer execution."

Telling stories is not just the oldest form of entertainment, it's the highest form of consciousness. The need for narrative is embedded deep in our brains. Increasingly, success in the information age demands that we harness the hidden power of stories.

"Time is over for shared experiences when watching TV. Based on the answers you give in an app, your listening history, gender, age, or location and time of the day, this video will adjust the story based on your personality taking your mood into account. Two people won't be watching a story unfolding in the same way again and even you might experience a different narrative at another time."

"Storyboarder makes it easy to visualize a story as fast you can draw stick figures. Quickly draw to test if a story idea works. Create and show animatics to others. Express your story idea without making a movie"

With 'Road Tales', Volkswagen wants to bring imagination back to where it has always belonged: the back seat. 'Road Tales' is developed for Dutch children between 4-11 years old and can be downloaded for free. The app uses a custom developed story-engine that creates unique tales based on the location of the user. To allow the stories to react to the environment, the Amsterdam based agency has scanned all Dutch highways to identify objects like bridges, windmills, trees, petrol stations and other main objects to transform them into story elements.

Structure of stories by Tristan Ferne

Korsakow, a software to create interactive films for the web. Korsakow is not a tool to create a story, it is a tool to weave a web of stories.

Visually mapping a narrative or story based on a script

Kurt Vonnegut - The Shapes of Stories

Nothing will be the same again - BBC's Visual Perceptive Media project will end the shared story experience

"Time is over for shared experiences when watching TV. Based on the answers you give in an app, this video will adjust the story based on your personality and even your mood. Two people won't be watching the same again. "

Short lecture by Kurt Vonnegut on the 'simple shapes of stories.'

"The R&D Prototyping team has recently built an internal prototype for BBC Vision called the Mythology Engine. It's a proof-of-concept for a website that represents BBC drama on the web letting you explore our dramas, catch up on story-lines, discover new characters and share what you find. "

The brand also wants U.S. and Puerto Rico viewers to call their own mom, anywhere in the world, for free.

"Steven Soderbergh's latest project-an interactive smartphone app called Mosaic-required covering most of the walls in a Chelsea loft with color-coded cards and notes. The app contains a 7-plus-hour miniseries about a mysterious death, but because viewers have some agency over what order they watch it in and which characters' stories they follow, each scene-and the point at which it should be introduced-had to be meticulously planned so that no detail was revealed too late or too soon. "

"The world's most-loved social storytelling platform Wattpad connects a global community of 80 million readers and writers through the power of story."

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"Frank Rose is a leading writer and speaker on digital culture. His most recent book, The Art of Immersion: How the Digital Generation Is Remaking Hollywood, Madison Avenue, and the Way We Tell Stories, investigates how entertainment and advertising are responding to overwhelming technological change."

MIT's Open Documentary Lab and IDFA's DocLab have joined together to put the long story of documentary innovation into perspective, and to speculate about its future.