Sometimes it is valuable to have something inside of a story that both the characters and participants can manipulate. Building an artifact that intersects with your main narrative thread is more common than you might think and very useful. The first narrative artifact-type I’d like to deal with are narrative-centric artifacts. These are narrative fragments that are internal to […]
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In print, your narrative thread may be enough to sustain a reader, but when you go beyond a single book, it’s time to consider the other ways your story can engage. Narrative artifacts allow you to build dimension into the universe of your story and are universally applicable. From journalism to video games, artifacts may be the key to pulling in and keeping your audience.
Narrative artifacts are the things that surround and add to universe of your narrative. In many ways they are one of the most important elements of a transmedia experience.
There are three types of artifacts: narrative-centric, narrative-parallel and narrative-additive.
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I’ve been reading through Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics on and off these last few months and it strikes me just how important this book is to anyone dealing with multimedia, not just comic artists or aficionados. When you […]
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