Reading Schedule

A Tentative Plan, by Zach Tomaszewski

for ICS 699, Fall 2006, directed by Dr. Kim Binsted

Tasks Done

Key

• To Do
• In Progress
• Done.

Tasks to Do

Misc Tasks

• Submit GSO grant paperwork for AAAI-06
• Close out AAAI-06
• Get grad div approval of committee
• Create argax-l listserv
• Pass HCI secondary exam

Reading (Essential)

• Crawford -- Interactive Storytelling
• Chris Fairclough (OPIATE) -- Thesis, (other articles)
• Mateas (Facade) -- Thesis, (other articles)
• Grasbon+Braun (GEIST) -- Articles

Reading (Non-essential but important)

• TIDSE
• Narrative Intelligence
• First Person/Ludologists
• Bookmarked articles
• Story generators
• Narratology (Chatman, Genette, Bal, Culler)

Game+System reviews

• Neverwinter Nights [Game review]
• Neverwinter Nights [System review]
• Inform [System/DMG review]
• Others? (Unreal, etc.)

Project Details

• Consolidate yellow notes into Argax site and IDEA-BIN
• Outline of features of currently proposed system
  • Comparison to features of closest existing systems
  • Highlight of differences/innovations
• The Game
  • Scenes
  • Characters
  • Locations/world
• The architecture details
• The testing

Proposal

• Lit review - fill in outline on argax.
• Architecture and game outline (see above)