'Making Interactive Stories Meaningful' Workshop on Story and Character Development through Theatre Games

摘要

The aim of this half-day participatory workshop was to explore new tools for interactive story generation through the playing of theatre games. The expected outcome of this session was the creation of an interactive role-playing game that could be presented at a conference luncheon or final wrap-up. The theme and characters of the gameplay were determined by the participants at the workshop and dealt with a current social or political issue, enabling conference attendees to contribute alternative solutions for a serious global issue. The take-away for game developers was a new tool to tap into theatre's innate ability to represent real life conflicts, allowing participants to construct and animate scenarios to test out different solutions from within.