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The field of Interactive Digital Narrative (IDN) can look back at more than 25 years of research. Considerable technical advances exist alongside open questions that still need full attention. With the discussion of five crucial aspects - narrative analysis, interoperability between different implementations, sustainability of digital artifacts, author-centered view, and user-focused perspective - the paper starts a conversation on successful methods and future goals in the research field.
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Koenitz, H. (2014). Five Theses for Interactive Digital Narrative. In: Mitchell, A., Fernández-Vara, C., Thue, D. (eds) Interactive Storytelling. ICIDS 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8832. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12337-0_13
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