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

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posted on 2023-06-08, 18:08 authored by Kate HowlandKate Howland, Judith Good, Benedict du Boulay
This paper introduces Narrative Threads, a suite of tools designed to support 11-15 year olds in creating their own narrative-based computer games. Authoring interactive stories in game form has strong educational potential, but although there are tools which make game creation possible for young people, they have provided little to no interface support for the storytelling aspect of the task until now. Here we describe the design and implementation of Narrative Threads, which provides this support. After giving the background to the tool, we describe the extensive participatory design process which built on existing theory. Finally, an initial evaluation is presented, which indicates that games created using Narrative Threads are rated more highly than those created without the additional support provided by these tools.

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Publication status

  • Published

Journal

Transactions in Edutainment X

Publisher

Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Issue

7775

Page range

122-145

Book title

Transactions on edutainment X

ISBN

9783642379185

Series

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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  • Informatics Publications

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  • Yes

Editors

Zhigeng Pan, Ido Iurgel, Paolo Petta, Wolfgang Müller, Bodo Urban, Adrian David Cheok

Legacy Posted Date

2014-08-28

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