Writing for Interactive Media: The Complete Guide, by Samsel, Jon & Darryl Wimberley
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Writing for Interactive Media: The Complete Guide, by Samsel, Jon & Darryl Wimberley. Allworth Press: New York, 1998. Edition: First edition. ISBN: 1581150059. Hardcover, 305 pages. Graphic design on paper-covered boards. Illustrated with line drawings and a few B&W photos. Includes Index and Bibliography.

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Contents: Interactive media includes interactive storytelling, hypertext, gaming applications and corporate trianing programs. This book examines the basic skills and structure needed from the writer's perspective. Learn about nodes and links, and how to fabricate a flowchart.. Learn the ten geometric design structures. Learn how spines and cul-de-sacs work, how to create a story in three acts, how to write the outer and inner story and maintain the thread. Learn about corporate uses of informational multimedia, including needs identification, research, and the needed look, feel and structure.

From the jacket: Included are interviews with leading visionaries Greg Roack, Neal Stephenson and Michael Joyce, and an exclusive look behind the scenes of such popular interactive creations as MGM's Paul is Dead, The X-Files, and the role-playing saga Myst. Sample documents, proposals, and scripts are also provided, as well as expert tips for networking, negotiation, and sidestepping the most common mistakes when writing interactive documents.