CHAPTER 17 Interactive Multimedia Narrative and Linear Narrative
Timothy Garrand
Portions of this chapter originally appeared in the Journal of Film and Video.
CHAPTER OVERVIEW
A narrative is what we commonly refer to as a story. An interactive, multimedia narrative allows the user to explore several variations of a story or stories. Interactive narratives are produced for game consoles, PCs, mobile devices, the Web and interactive TV. Interactive narratives share many elements with linear film and video narrative. Because of this, it is useful to understand the basic elements of linear narrative before exploring the intricacies of interactive narrative.
NARRATIVE AND INTERACTIVE NARRATIVE DEFINED
A narrative is what we commonly refer to as ...
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