http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Thirty-Six_Dramatic_Situations<\/a>\u00a0In brief, Polti’s situations are a more detailed version of the view that there are only six plots in the world. One of his situations, for example, is the Daring Enterprise, which requires a bold leader, an object and an adversary.<\/p>\nI was interested in how many times this idea of codifying the narrative format came up during the conference and also in how often this conference seemed to focus on gaming.<\/p>\n
After this, Rui Figueiredo talked about an interactive video developed as part of an anti-bullying project. Seemed an immense amount of programming work for very little reward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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John Yearwood\u00a0talked about ‘Interactive narrative by thematic connection of dramatic situations’. Given his material, I think he could have come up with a more user-friendly title. He described an approach to generating interactive narrative in a computer game by using an argument-based structure to work out the next event in the language sequence.<\/p>\n