Imagine how exciting it will be to be part of a great story. Soon we will be able to go beyond reading great books and watching great films, and actually be in them; we will step into their world and become active participants. We are on the verge of developing an exciting new kind of interactive story form that will involve audiences as active participants.
This book provides a solid foundation in the fundamentals of classical story structure and classical game structure and explains why it has been surprisingly difficult to bring these two activities together. With this foundation in place, the book presents several ideas for ways to move forward in this appealing quest.