Chapter 21 Prognostications
WHAT FUTURE AWAITS INTERACTIVE STORYTELLING?
Two schools of thought compete: evolutionary and revolutionary.
The Evolutionary School
This school believes that interactive storytelling will evolve out of the games industry. Unsurprisingly, it consists mostly of people currently working in the games biz. Optimists all, they are confident that with continuing effort they can improve the medium to the point that it rivals Hollywood in narrative depth.
Unquestionably, games have made progress in integrating a story into the game. In Chapter 7, “Simple Strategies That Don’t Work,” I related the history of that effort. I also explained why these efforts will never achieve true interactive storytelling. I did not, however, ...
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