Argax Project

Open

Once a tree gains paths from lower nodes to upper nodes, as in a tree with loopbacks, it becomes a directed graph (Crawford 2005). Meadows (2003) refers to such structures as "open", but it can also be seen as a network or hypertext structure.

In a true Open structure, any path through any of the nodes will result in a story. Or else attempts at a well-formed story have been abandoned.

Works Cited

• Crawford, Chris. Chris Crawford on Interactive Storytelling. Berkeley, CA: New Riders, 2005.
• Meadows, Mark Stephens. Pause & Effect: The Art of Interactive Narrative. Indianapolis, IN: New Riders, 2003.

ToDo

• Difference between loopback and open structure then? Just extent or intent?
• Does this relate to non-narrative games at all?
• Crawford's PacMan extention: same basic choices, but different contexts.

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Last Edited: 13 Dec 2006 ©2006 by Z. Tomaszewski.