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Title: Pause & Effect: The Art of Interactive Narrative by Mark S. Meadows ISBN: 0-7357-1171-2 Publisher: New Riders Pub. Date: 10 September, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.58 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A must buy for interacitve storytellers
Comment: As a documentary filmmaker who is starting to work in the the interactive arena, this book is a map through the maze. Mark Meadows provides a detailed and interesting explanation of the evolution of narrative and how that evolution is pushing us into interactive narrative. The book helped me understand interactive design but also expanded my horizons for the work I am presently doing and will do in the future. Interactive narrative is the future for us storytellers, and this book helps us ride the turbulent waves of its development.
Rating: 5
Summary: From a web developer perspective...
Comment: I can't really do justice to this book by merely reviewing it. However, since this is meant to be a review, I'll muddle through as best I can.
Pause & Effect is aimed at designers who want to do more than shove information at a target audience, or get people to buy stuff online. Mark Meadows discusses interactive narrative and how it relates to actual experience in online situations, as well as real life. He does this by example, by logical argument, and by simply conversing. While there is some deep theory, the text is extremely approachable, and eye-opening to say the least. You won't find formulas to make you a better designer or artist, nor will you come away with a set of rules or guidelines. What you will find is a new approach to recognizing and developing media, perspectives most people are not likely to have thought about, let alone design from.
This book has the potential to drastically change the designer and developer mindset from implementation to creation, from problem solving to architecting new challenges and solutions.
Let me be clear; you will have to work. And it will be a joy. Meadows requires the reader to get involved, to seriously consider the ideas presented and run with them. Pause & Effect will be useless to those who are happy with flashing ad banners and multitudes of pop-up/under/over/behind windows or other annoying attempts at grabbing attention. However, if you want to understand and ponder the very basis of human interaction and involvement with your visitors, this is a wonderful place to start.
Rating: 1
Summary: Absolutely No New Concepts
Comment: There are no new concepts put forth in this book, and worse, it's filled with painful stabs at humor, practically worthless information (most of which seemingly to get the reader from one picture to the next). I just don't think many people realize that Meadows has rewritten existing ideas as little "revelations" he has had himself, and so, I advise any prospective shoppers to move on, look toward online journals or monthly magazines in this field (like Speculative Reviews of Narrative, etc). There's nothing to see here.
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Title: The New Media Reader by Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Nick Montfort ISBN: 0262232278 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 14 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: The Language of New Media (Leonardo Books) by Lev Manovich ISBN: 0262632551 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 07 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace by Janet H. Murray ISBN: 0262631873 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 27 August, 1998 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: New Screen Media: Cinema, Art, Narrative by Martin Rieser, Andrea Zapp ISBN: 0851708641 Publisher: British Film Inst Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Experience Design 1 by Nathan Shedroff ISBN: 0735710783 Publisher: New Riders Pub. Date: 18 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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