A story environment is a physical, adaptive, augmented 3D reality or virtual space that can become host to narratives. Distinct from a story world, these environments can be in close proximity and even overlapping, and may have quite different narrative themes. The stories may be heavily scripted, or be created and shared by the space's users.
A story environment has potentially five levels:
- Static - The environment is rich but only communicates in a visual static way
- Living - The environment speaks to the participant, a monologue, pushes story at the participant e.g.; ghosts, residual lives, placed signage etc.:
- Dynamic - The participant has a dialogue with the environment which responds to most things they do. E.g.: objects and bots respond to chat
- Improvised - human
- Non-player characters are key role players
- Automatically animating the participant and talking for the participant with others (automated) in group scenes
- The participant delivers a pre-set script as actor
References
Story environment Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA