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The Authorial Leverage Framework

As part of my PhD work at UC Santa Cruz in the Expressive Intelligence Studio, I created three different dynamic narrative systems driving three different games. Afterwards, I generalized out the lessons I learned while creating them, and my subsequent career in industry as a technical narrative designer, into what I very self-consciously call The Authorial Leverage Framework.

If you need a quick dip into it, I'd recommend reading the article version that's just the framework in 13 pages.

If you want more info with proper citations / positionings within existing thought on this stuff (and aren't put off by academic language) then I'd recommend the full dissertation but would suggest just reading the Introduction and Conclusion, which comes in at around 35 pages.

If you want a deep dive into each of the three projects, the types of dynamic narrative they tackled, their positioning within some previous really cool work, and their development process/story, then I'm amazed, but yeah, go ahead and read my whole dissertation! It's like 300 pages but has all sorts of gems squirreled away in there.

If you want to talk about this stuff or have questions, feel free to hit me up at logodaedalus@gmail.com!

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