Define “Authoring Tool”: A Survey of Interactive Narrative Authoring Tools
DANIEL JOHN GREEN, Charlie Hargood, Fred Charles · Bournemouth University Research Online (Bournemouth University) · 2018
The creation of interactive narrative is often supported by authoring tools -either to unlock the creation process for non-technical authors or simply make authorship faster and easier.From early Hypertext focused creation tools this has now evolved to a broad diaspora of tools from specialist applications for particular types of story to generalist information system creation tools than can be used for narrative purposes, and from academic research software to commercial tools aimed at authors and game companies.In this paper we seek to answer "What is a tool, anyway, in the context of authoring for interactive storytelling?".Our results demonstrate four populations of tools -two large tools differentiated by support for key features, a smaller cluster of tools from a single publisher, and a fourth cluster of outliers.