This thesis, conducted as part of a graduation project at GAMUCATEX, addresses the integration of narrative elements into the digital card game Tectonicus: on the Edge of War and explores the redesign of its Heads-Up Display (HUD). The primary aim is to enhance player experience by creating a more coherent …

Copenhagen-based menswear brand Isnurh decided to collaborate with mental health awareness platform Community of Real People (further called CORP) to produce a non-profit collection, from which two styles should be released during mental health awareness month in May 2023 and sold to raise donations …

Innovations in digital storytelling techniques have spurred on the development of new journalistic and audience practices. The production processes of interactive and immersive journalistic narratives are highly technological and require specialist knowledge of both journalism and design, and require …

Extensive research has explored the role of perfectionism in individuals (Hewitt & Flett, 1991; Mackinnon & Sherry, 2012). Perfectionism is considered as a stable personality trait that is characterized by “high standards of performance which are accompanied by tendencies for overly critical evaluations …

The evolution of digital media has fostered the emergence of new and adapted forms of storytelling. Journalism combines classic narrative resources with technology and interactive strategies to inform, explain and represent reality. After an initial stage of adaptation and experimentation, it is necessary …

Interactivity as part of journalistic narratives is a common practice in newsrooms around the world. Interactive journalistic narratives developed as a subgenre of online journalism in the decade following Snow Fall: The Avalanche of Tunnel Creek (The New York Times, 2012) after which news organisations …

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2022, held in Santa Cruz, CA, USA, in December 2022. The 30 full papers and 10 short papers, presented together with 17 posters and demos, were carefully reviewed and selected …

This demo is the first outcome of the research project VR for Diversity. The theoretical backgrounds for the project are shortly discussed and the concept for Amelia’s Dream is presented. Amelia’s Dream is a VR experience that is filmed using volumetric video capture technology, in which a young woman …

Initial expectations about the interactive affordances of VR were often inspired by science fiction and technological fantasies rather than based on actual technical possibilities. In these futuristic accounts of VR, interactors would have the opportunity to fully engage with the characters that inhabit …

De opdrachtgever van dit project is het Lectoraat Bodem en Ondergrond van Saxion Hogeschool. Het project is uitgevoerd in het kader van een Comenius Teaching Fellow "Digital classroom: Archaeology of Conflicts". Tijdens het afstudeertraject werd er begeleiding gegeven door Ruurd Kok en Kris Brussen. Voor …