An approach to Collaborative Storytelling

Year:

2011

Phase:

Finished

Authors:

Guilherme António Mesquita Barbas

Advisors:

Abstract

Given its enormous potential Interactive Storytelling has been the subject of many academic research in recent time. The promise to create a story capable to adapt and mould itself to the person who is experiencing it has several implications specially when we are talking about the Entertainment Industry. However, this does not come freely. The creation of such stories has been a thorn on its paw since its inception. Due to this fact the lion's share of investigation has been around the authoring part of Interactive Storytelling with some results in recent times but still with a very troubled existence where only experts are capable of creating stories. The approach taken to solve this problem consists in using the power of collaboration and team work to solve the many issues identified that currently limit the Interactive Storytelling world. Since there is little to no work in the field of Group Authoring for Interactive Storytelling the work made was mainly of creation, of testing a new approach with some help from the work developed for 'normal authoring'. To demonstrate the research's results a prototype named StoryColla of an authoring collaborative system was created. A prototype that not only allows for the creation of Interactive Stories collaboratively it also does not require any type of programming expertise to be used.