Stories in Between: Narratives and Mediums @ Play

stories in between: narratives and mediums @ play is a unique text exploring the interplay between stories and media.

The discussion focuses around the Myst narrative as it moves across media from games to books to comics to games.

Along the way, the text also discusses the Sandman comics, and the hypermedia of Ultima Online and MitterNachtSpiel.

This text was created hypertextually to exist online as a website with an inter-related book.

Also, it has been released under a under a Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike2.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/.

Readers are encouraged to share and create work based on this text.

The website can be viewed at: http://www.etc.cmu.edu/etcpress/