{"id":121,"date":"2004-09-30T21:50:30","date_gmt":"2004-09-30T19:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.dk\/ludologist\/?p=121"},"modified":"2004-09-30T21:52:45","modified_gmt":"2004-09-30T19:52:45","slug":"the-emerging-emergence-is-interactive-narrative-an-oxymoron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2004\/09\/30\/the-emerging-emergence-is-interactive-narrative-an-oxymoron\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Emerging Emergence&#8221; &#038; &#8220;Is interactive narrative an oxymoron?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Slides from Jon Weinbren&#8217;s talk <a href=\"http:\/\/195.40.181.89\/agenplan\/jonweinbren.ppt\">&#8220;Is interactive narrative an oxymoron?&#8221;<\/a> at European Developers Forum early September.<\/p>\n<p>That title sounds vaguely familiar, wait, it&#8217;s in <a href=\"http:\/\/mfj-online.org\/journalPages\/MFJ28\/Dissimulations.html\">Andy Cameron&#8217;s Dissimulations article<\/a> from 1995.  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[&#8230;] the term interactive narrative is an oxymoron<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Perhaps it&#8217;s time to adopt a cyclical view of history?<br \/>\nOr perhaps it just tells us something basic about the video game medium. <\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>More interesting, Warren Spector&#8217;s keynote &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/195.40.181.89\/agenplan\/warrenspector.ppt\">The Emerging Emergence<\/a>&#8221; threads ground that is becoming familiar (perhaps I&#8217;ve been to too many <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetdeusex.com\/witchboy\/\">Harvey Smith<\/a> talks).  I am certainly trying to spoon-feed the students at my current game design course with this stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Question: Will discussions of emergence reappear cyclically in the future?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slides from Jon Weinbren&#8217;s talk &#8220;Is interactive narrative an oxymoron?&#8221; at European Developers Forum early September. That title sounds vaguely familiar, wait, it&#8217;s in Andy Cameron&#8217;s Dissimulations article from 1995. [&#8230;] the term interactive narrative is an oxymoron Perhaps it&#8217;s time to adopt a cyclical view of history? Or perhaps it just tells us something &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2004\/09\/30\/the-emerging-emergence-is-interactive-narrative-an-oxymoron\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;The Emerging Emergence&#8221; &#038; &#8220;Is interactive narrative an oxymoron?&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}