3.  What is a level?  Why do we use them?  How do you distinguish them?  Should there be a final level?  Games that use them well?

4.  Way to break up a game  For developers  Development simplification  How different should they be?  How important is progressive difficulty?  Benefits to players  Accomplishment  Learning

5.  Transitions  Cut scenes  Travel  Consistency and differentiation  Includes all world aspects

6.  Making it harder  Ability to start at any level  Serious games  Content  Gameplay

8.  Reach emotion, not just adrenaline  Key in all well-crafted entertainment  More specifically  Add to entertainment value  Wider audience  Keep interest  Marketing

9.  Are these the first interactive stories?  NO. Audience participation!  What does the player want?  New experience  New place  New person  New activity  Recommendation: learn good storytelling rules

10. GENRECONSIDERATIONS  Arcade games  Strategy games  First person shooter  RPG, adventure  Length  Characters  Realism  Emotional richness

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

12.  Linear  Branching  Foldback  Emergent

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

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

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

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

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

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

19.  Set up  Confrontation  Resolution

20. 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

21.  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