The Art of Interactive Storytelling

Many of us have learned the basics of linear story telling in school; that is, how to fomulate a story with a solid beginning, middle part and ending. However, storytelling arenas like tabletop RPGs, video games and even social media posts sometimes demand and more often offer the floor for interactive storytelling - a narrative that changes and grows as others interact with it by reacting and making choices. How are such stories formulated? What makes a good or a bad interactive story? In this programme we take a look into different interactive narratives and hopefully learn a thing or two about interactive storytelling, to develop our own skills (or just to satisfy our curiosity!)