Serious Interactive Digital Narrative: Explorations in Personalization and Player Experience Enrichment

Serious Interactive Digital Narrative is the next step in the evolution of serious games: a deeply adaptive medium that applies player modeling at its core to provide seamless and justifiable personalized experience, which entrenches the impact of its serious discourse using the novel artificially intelligent methods. The objective of this exploratory paper is to re-explore the idea that narration has central role in serious games and interactiveness can arguably enrich the player experience. This is done through tracing relevant literature to highlight its importance and exploration into the arsenal of novel intelligent techniques as an attempt to elaborate on its realization, emphasizing on major functionality of interactive narrative in delegating agency and providing immersive experience for the player. To clarify, due to its exploratory nature, this study in its current stage is void of experimental results. Nevertheless, it concludes with a proposed prototype game design, outlining its key game design elements and stating possible outlooks.