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The Complete Guide
Jon Samsel, Darryl Wimberley
ISBN: 9781581150056
Format: Hardback
Publisher:Allworth Press,U.S.
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This book offers a vital introduction to the key skills and concepts every writer needs to master the emerging craft of interactive writing. Authors Samsel and Wimberley explore the entire gamut of multimedia activity…
This volume offers guidance in writing for interactive media. Having examined basic story-telling, the book goes on to look at Internet soap operas, educational kiosks, Web-based training and other on-going experiments around the globe. It sets out to teach writers how to expand their markets and create design proposals, and discusses character and story issues, interactive screenplays and more.
| ISBN | 1581150059 | | Pages | 320 | | ISBN13 | 9781581150056
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Allworth Press,U.S. | | Weight (grammes) | 594 | | Imprint | Allworth Press,U.S. | | Published in | New York | | Format | Hardback | | Height (mm) | 229 | | Publication date | 01 Apr 1999 | | Width (mm) | 152 | | Library of Congress | 98072754 | | Spine width (mm) | 23 | | DEWEY | 808.020285 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | | Interest age | 20 |
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| | | Acknowledgments | | | | | | Introduction | | | | Pt. I | | Form and Function | | | | Ch. 1 | | Skills You'll Need | | 3 | | Ch. 2 | | Structure Out of Chaos | | 21 | | Ch. 3 | | What Interactive Documents Look Like | | 41 | | Pt. II | | Interactivity and Narrative | | | | Ch. 4 | | Homer to Cyberbard, What's the Difference? | | 63 | | Ch. 5 | | Immersion and the Seamless Experience | | 69 | | Ch. 6 | | What's Writing Got to Do with it? | | 75 | | Ch. 7 | | Language, Spines, and Cul-de-Sacs | | 89 | | Ch. 8 | | What is an Interactive Story? | | 101 | | Ch. 9 | | God, Three Acts, and the Spine | | 111 | | Ch. 10 | | Performing Character | | 127 | | Ch. 11 | | Toward an Interactive Aesthetic | | 151 | | Ch. 12 | | Conversations with Kaplan, Stephenson, and Roach | | 157 | | Pt. III | | Hybrids and Hypertext | | | | Ch. 13 | | Away from Narrative: Hypertexts, Open Texts, and James Joyce | | 171 | | Ch. 14 | | The Web and Popular Entertainment | | 195 | | Ch. 15 | | Paul is Dead: The MGM Online Series | | 209 | | Ch. 16 | | The Reconstructed Text | | 223 | | Pt. IV | | Informational Multimedia | | | | Ch. 17 | | Informational Multimedia, Education, and Training | | 233 | | Ch. 18 | | Global Window: Japan - A Content-Rich Web Site | | 249 | | Ch. 19 | | PhotoPRINT CD: Interactive Sales and Training | | 257 | | Pt. V | | Frequently Asked Questions | | 281 | | | More... | | |
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