Eric's Journey into the Art of Story-telling with Machinations // Machinations Community Spotlight

The discussion with Eric was incredibly fun and it was hard to put a stop to the meeting. In this Community Spotlight, you'll see Machinations used like a tool for "interactive, scientific-powered mind-mapping". Eric is specialized in creative writing and he shares some very interesting insights into the art of story-telling, something that is central to game design. He also had a TON of useful links & information to share, all of which you can find below.
►►► Make sure to catch the FULL Interview here: • Eric's Original use of...
► Eric's Community Profile: machinations.io/community/mil...
► Featured diagrams:
- The Primer: machinations.io/community/mil...
- ExtrinsicIntrinsicDynamicDesign: machinations.io/community/mil...
► Eric's socials:
- / shadmiller
- / eric.s.miller.5
Here's a bunch of valuable story-telling resources that Eric was kind enough to share with us:
► Off the Page Games (Jay's board game company where our board game will come from)
offthepagegames.com/
► Intrinsic versus Extrinsic Rewards
Klei Entertainment
support.klei.com/hc/en-us/art...
► Education
James Paul Gee What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy
www.amazon.com/Video-Games-Le...
► Interactive Storytelling
Diamond Age
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dia...
► Marie Laure-Ryan Narrative As Virtual Reality 2 Revisiting Immersion And Interactivity In Literature And Electronic Media Parallax Re Visions Of Culture And Society (One Chapter about Diamond Age)
pdflife.one/download/4572793-...
►AI Dungeon 2
play.aidungeon.io/main/home
► Facade - The authors also wrote some really great individual papers too!
www.playablstudios.com/facade
► Vladimir Propp - So Cool!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimi...
► Super useful resource for research, the Wikipedia page on Interactive storytelling
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interac...
► Brenda Laurel Hamlet on the Holodeck (So Good!)
mitpress.mit.edu/books/hamlet... (A bunch of updated versions are on amazon too)
► Chris Crawford On Interactive Storytelling (Sample pages. There's a pretty good update out)
ptgmedia.pearsoncmg.com/images...
from his blog
www.erasmatazz.com/library/in...
► More of Eric's professional traces:
- Portfolio site
shad-miller.squarespace.com/a...
- Dissertation
utd-ir.tdl.org/handle/10735.1...

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Looking good, Shad!