DDES9903 Brief: Digital Narrative

DDES9903 Assessment 2 Brief: Digital  
  
Walkthrough for Narrative Experience  
  
DDES9903 | Narrative and Sensemaking in Immersive Environments  
  
Assessment Task 2: Digital Walkthrough for Narrative Experience  
  
WEIGHT 60%  
  
ASSESSMENT TYPE Project  
  
GROUP WORK No  
  
DUE DATE Week 11 Friday 11:55 pm AEST  
  
SUBMISSION What to Submit  
  
REQUIREMENTS An electronic PDF containing a design report of 1000 words (maximum) + a functional  
  
interactive storyboard (a WebGL folder of your digital walkthrough)  
  
Where to Submit  
  
Moodle Submission Portal  
  
The final submission will be checked for originality through Turnitin when you submit.  
  
Penalties may apply for late submission as indicated in the course outline.  
  
Background  
  
In Assessment 1, we concentrated on crafting coherent stories where we, as the author, had a large degree of  
  
control of what the user experienced. That is, the sequence of events that we crafted would be linearly  
  
deterministic and be the same regardless of who was experiencing the work. Now that you are familiar with this  
  
creative process, you are asked to consider the design challenges of when we relinquish some of that dramatic  
  
control. What if the user were able to have a material effect in your narrative world? How would you maintain a  
  
coherent story experience if you give your users agency?  
  
Assessment Description  
  
Your overarching task is to demonstrate your understanding of:  
  
1. Narrative design;  
  
2. The appropriate application of user agency;  
  
3. And the use of immersive design elements in non-linear narratives.  
  
To this end, you are asked to design a short, non-linear narrative experience in which the user or the participant  
  
has agency. This may be a serious game, a training simulation, or something purely fictional used for  
  
entertainment. You are asked to produce an   digital walkthrough   to demonstrate your design. It is advised that  
  
you use your Assessment 1 submission as the Assessment 2 story starting point.  
  
  Digital walkthrough   in this context will be the same definition provided in the Assessment 1 brief.  
  
To reduce your workload, it is recommended that you use your previous assessment task as a basis for this one.  
  
As a rough guide for scale, please design your experience to be 4 to 6 minutes in length only.  
  
You must also include a short design report specifying and explaining your design choices. Did you encounter any  
  
difficulties during the process? What was your solution? You are required to support your design choices with  
  
class materials and/or articles.  
  
DDES9903 Narrative and Sensemaking in Immersive Environments | Assessment 2 Brief 1  
  
Assessment 2 Brief: Digital  
  
Walkthrough for Narrative Experience  
  
DDES9903 | Narrative and Sensemaking in Immersive Environments  
  
Assessment 2 Criteria: Digital Walkthrough for Narrative Experience  
  
Criteria & Fail Pass Credit Distinction High Distinction  
  
Weighting (<50) (50  C 64) (65  C 74) (75  C 84) (85  C 100)  
  
Narrative Narrative design does Narrative design Narrative design Robust narrative Highly robust narrative  
  
Design not maintain a maintains a coherent maintains a coherent design maintains a design maintains a  
  
coherent story story experience in the story experience in the coherent story and highly coherent story  
  
35% experience in the majority of cases with high majority of cases experience while experience while  
  
majority of cases, or some constraints on with some constraints allowing a moderate allowing a high degree  
  
imposes major user agency. on user agency. degree of user agency. of user agency.  
  
constraints on user  
  
agency.  
  
Agency Demonstrates Demonstrates an Demonstrates some Demonstrates a well Demonstrates a  
  
significant understanding of user considered considered sophisticated  
  
35% misunderstandings of agency and its understanding of user understanding of user understanding of user  
  
user agency and its appropriate agency and its agency and its agency and its  
  
appropriate application. Fit-for appropriate appropriate appropriate  
  
application. purpose integration application. Fit-for application. Fit-for application. Synergistic  
  
Inappropriate with most narrative purpose integration purpose integration integration with other  
  
integration with most elements. with other narrative with other narrative narrative elements.  
  
narrative elements. elements. elements, with some  
  
degree of synergy.  
  
Narrative Demonstrates Demonstrates basic Demonstrates some Demonstrates well Demonstrates  
  
Sensemaking incoherent use of use of multimodal, considered use of considered use of sophisticated use of  
  
Elements multimodal, spatial spatial and enacted multimodal, spatial multimodal, spatial multimodal, spatial  
  
and enacted elements elements to convey and enacted elements and enacted elements and enacted elements  
  
30% to convey non-linear non-linear narrative. to convey non-linear to convey non-linear to convey non-linear  
  
narrative. Demonstrates basic narrative. narrative. narrative.  
  
Demonstrates little functional Demonstrates highly Demonstrates well Demonstrates  
  
understanding of understanding of functional considered sophisticated  
  
existing theory to existing theory to understanding of understanding of understanding of  
  
justify usage of said justify usage of said existing theory to existing theory to existing theory to  
  
elements. elements. justify usage of said justify usage of said justify usage of said  
  
elements. elements. elements.  
  
DDES9903 Narrative and Sensemaking in Immersive Environments | Assessment 2 Brief 2