Some in the gaming industry believe the holy grail of video game design will be user driven narratives that dynamically change, never ending the same way. Storytron is software for interactive storytelling designed to immerse the player in a dynamic world. Hmm sounds like a match to me.
Storytron has been in development for years and now just seeing a pre-alpha release to early adopters. Creatives use Storytron's authoring tool called SWAT to build a universe of dramatic possibilities by presetting the personalities of characters along with locations and occurrences. With multiple paths that lead in different directions, the story changes depending on the player's actions.
I've seen dynamic narrative programming before, namely procedural used in Spore, but this is the first time I've heard of Storytron. It sounds like an interesting tool. The founder, Chris Crawford, does have some impressive credits on his resume, developing Excalibur for Atari and author of the popular book "The Art of Computer Game Design". It all sounds good to me. I'd love to see epic games like Final Fantasy move towards nonlinear stories.
via Cool Hunting
That is one scary lookin dude.