Narrative threads: A tool to support young people in creating their own narrative-based computer games

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7775 LNCS, Issue , 2013, Pages 122-145

  Howland, Katherine ^a   Good, Judith ^a   Du Boulay, Benedict ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Authoring tools for young people; Multimodal game narratives; Participatory design; Story representations

Indexed keywords

DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATIONS; EDUCATIONAL POTENTIAL; INTERACTIVE STORIES; MULTI-MODAL; PARTICIPATORY DESIGN; STORY REPRESENTATION; YOUNG PEOPLES;

COMPUTER GAMES;

TOOLS;

EID: 84893360307     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-37919-2_7     Document Type: Article

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