vrml-lit home page

(last changed: 24 June 1998.)

This is a placeholder home page for the vrml-lit mailing list, a list for discussion of long-form VRML narrative and other issues related to interactive storytelling. For now, all that's here is a list of pointers to resources:

Articles:

• the archives of the mailing list
• NewMedia's storytelling articles
• Michael St. Hippolyte's article on nonlinear storytelling (dated 10/95, but still relevant)
• Misty West on storytelling in 3D
• storyboarding
• NPC generation
• The Craft of Adventure
• Salon article on online theatre
• Sandy Ressler on VR and The Truman Show

Software:

• Placeware, Web-based collaborative work software.
• Chris Crawford's Erasmatazz
• Infocom games on CD (also Zork trilogy)
• text adventure authoring tools:
  • Inform
  • TADS
• Stuff about bots:
  • Jeffrey Goldsmith's page
  • Shallow Red
  • Botspot (includes bot types list)
  • Extempo
  • Bill Niemeyer's page
  • Oz Interactive
• Trust and Betrayal, an old Mac game in which NPCs have emotional state that determines how they interact with you (unfortunately I have no pointer to further info on this)
• Uncle Buddy's Funhouse, a different kind of nonlinear interactive story
• Pirate Software page

Books mentioned on the list (support your local independent bookseller by ordering these locally! Or use the links to Amazon if you prefer):

• Brenda Laurel, Computers As Theatre
• Janet Murray, Hamlet on the Holodeck
• Sherry Turkle, Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet
• Herb Zettl, Sight, Sound, Motion: Applied Media Aesthetics

Info on some examples of VRML storytelling (both complete and works-in-progress):

• VRML Dream (A Midsummer Night's Dream performed live via streaming VRML)
• IrishSpace
• Alan Taylor's Why We Die
• Familiar Tales (click the yellow cylinder)
• Kahuna's Usual Suspects

Info on storytelling in other media:

• David Siegel's nine-act structure theory
• movie cliches

Natural Language Parsing (NLP):

• Loebner Prize results (link currently broken; will remove if it remains broken)
• Philip Bralich's Ergo Linguistic Technologies
• descriptions of some NLP systems

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