Authoring Interactive Narrative Meets Narrative Interaction Design

Authoring stories and designing interactions are often discussed separately, within differing communitiesCommunities. At the same time, it would be useful to regard these two tasks as actually one integrated process for the creation of interactive narratives. With a focus on non-standardized interaction stylesInteractioninteraction style, this chapter discusses the authoring challenges involved in conceiving IDNs for locationLocation-based and immersiveImmersion (immersive) experiences with novelNovel technologies, one example being Augmented RealityAugmented Reality (AR). These challenges include the necessity to understand technologies and their users, as well as potential gaps between the platforms and circumstances of creation and experience. This chapter suggests approaches to these authoring problems, placing an emphasis on the integration of the story withPatterninteraction pattern repeatableRepeat (repeatable) interaction patternsInteractioninteraction pattern.