I have bee reading, although very slowly, Chris Crawford’s “On Interactive Storytelling. I’m only about half way through the book but I find it very fascinating.
In particular his “Data-Driven” strategies. He sites references of Aarne-Thompson, Vladimir Propp and Georges Polti. I can’r help but wonder where Joseph Campbell’s system would fit or more particular, Chris Vogler’s interpretation of the Writer’s Journey. When writing screenplays, I would often get ideas by placing Chines Zodiac archetypes in a Vogler situation and let them play against each other. Although the interaction were in my head I could not feel as if I was following a rule based system.
I’m only part way through the Language-based Strategies, I also find this extremely relative. Before reading this book I had been studying up on compiler design so I might be able to create such a Languages-based system.
I’ll have more notes as I finish the book.
