2. Player User Interface Storytelling Engine Core Mechanics Triggers Narrative Events In-Game EventsPlayer Events

3.  Linear  Branching  Foldback  Emergent

4.  Aesthetically  Greater emotional capability  Deny dramatic freedom  Practically  Require less content  Engine simpler  Less prone to bugs (absurdities)

5.  Aesthetically  Replayable  Harder to create specific emotions  Event influence  Advise player of significance  Deferred or cumulative  Practically  Expensive and complex  Merging  Number of endings

6.  Inevitable events that create the story arc  Every play comes through them  Compromise between complexity and dramatic freedom

7.  No storytelling engine  Story evolves strictly from player actions  MUDs  LambdaMOO: A Rape in CyberspaceA Rape in Cyberspace

8.  Endings  Dramatic and premature  Multiplicity  Narrative granularity

9.  Mechanisms  Challenges  Choices  Drama (time)  Journey  Tools  Cut scenes  Dialogue

10.  Set up  Confrontation  Resolution

11. A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man.  Call to adventure  Road of trials  Boon  Return to the ordinary world  Application of the boon  Vogler’s version Vogler’s version

12.  Interactive Fiction Interactive Fiction  Tony Hirst’s Digital WorldsDigital Worlds  Lee Sheldon, Character Development and Storytelling for Games (2004)  Today’s MMORPGs Today’s MMORPGs