Course code

IFI7384.DT

old course code

Course title in Estonian

Interaktiivne lugude jutustamine digitaalses meedias

Course title in English

Interactive Storytelling in Digital Media

ECTS credits

6.0

Assessment form

Examination

lecturer of 2024/2025 Spring semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

lecturer of 2025/2026 Autumn semester

Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.

Course aims

To introduce the key concepts and approaches in interactive storytelling. To equip students with the basic knowledge required to analyze existing interactive narratives and design their own.

Brief description of the course

Types and functions of interactive narratives. Interactive storytelling across media and cultural forms. Ludonarrative, procedural rhetoric, and narrative framing in games. Plot mapping, worldbuilding, and characterisation in interactive stories. Branching narratives and meaningful choices. Narrative emergence and meaning-making in emergent storytelling. Interactive narrative structures in games. Quests and campaigns. Tools for designing interactive stories.

Learning outcomes in the course

Upon completing the course the student:
- lists the major types of interactive stories;
- defines key terms and concepts in interactive storytelling;
- discusses and classifies examples of interactive storytelling in games and other media;
- analyzes existing interactive narratives in terms of their structural and rhetorical features;
- designs a concept for an interactive narrative and presents it using key terms in the field.

Teacher

Mikhail Fiadotau

Study programmes containing that course

Digital Learning Games (DTLGM/25.DT)