Comments on: Chris Crawford on Phrontisterion V

By: andrew

andrew — Tue, 09 Nov 2004 15:13:41 +0000

Here's The Breakup Conversation, which apparently has a recently updated build available.

By: noah

noah — Tue, 09 Nov 2004 14:49:30 +0000

Is the Breakup Conversation available? I’d wanted to take a look, and possibly assign it to my students, but wasn’t able to find it on Rob’s website.

By: andrew

andrew — Tue, 09 Nov 2004 13:41:14 +0000

Hi Magy! I have Glassner's book, but like most things I want to read or play — the Sims 2, Rob's Breakup Conversation, GTA:SA, Fable, Glassner's book, Crawford's book — I'm too busy finishing Facade to get to them yet... Speaking of which, it looks like Crawford's book is now available! Once I have free time, I'm probably going to try to write about that before Glassner's, because (after having skimmed both) Crawford's is more focused on generative, deeply interactive techniques, whereas Glassner I speculated is more design-heavy, tech-lite. Recently, Clive Thompson of collision detection got a lot out of Glassner's book, and points to a Slashdot review.

By: Magy Seif El-Nasr

Magy Seif El-Nasr — Tue, 09 Nov 2004 03:59:46 +0000

I was wondering if anyone read Interactive Storytelling by Andrew Glassner. I am still reading it, but I think that he brings about many interesting points. I am especially interested in the idea of ‘flow’ and how everyone is handling that, because I struggled with to balance this issue in Mirage. I think we had a pretty good solution to get the user into the flow of the story and get him/her to interact without setting back the pace or cutting the flow.

I am just curious how everyone else found the book.

-Magy