Nic Junius: Braided Narratives: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Linear Stories

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Creating dynamic, interactive narratives is hard, in no small part because of the massive amount of authoring effort they can require. I explore both where this authoring burden comes from and look at an approach to narrative design which avoids the exponential explosion of writing: braided narratives. Rather than every storyline or quest being its own fractal tree, we can wrap linear plots around each other to achieve dynamism through pacing instead of choice. Join me in this twisty adventure!




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