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1. Writing the Web with RiTa and Javascript

   This workshop presented a hands-on introduction to the RiTa.js toolkit
   It is a toolkit for digital literature designed to work natively
   in web browsers.

   RiTa.js is an easy-to-use natural language library that provides simple
   procedural tools for experimenting with digital literature. The philosophy behind
   the toolkit is to be as simple and intuitive as possible, while still providing
   adequate flexibility for more advanced users. RiTa.js is written in 100%
   JavaScript and runs natively in popular web browsers. It is both free and opensource.

   (Source: Author's abstract, 2012 ELO Conference site)

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 14.06.2012 - 14:32

2. Shakespeare in Simlish? Responsive Systems and Literary Language

   There is a moment that can happen when reading/playing an interactive fiction. The system just presented some text, perhaps quite engaging or even beautiful. And then one tries to reply, using some of the same language, only to receive an error. The underlying system doesn't can't hear the language with which it speaks. The language it displays is written ahead of time, while the language it receives must be parsed and acted upon at runtime.

   There is something uneasy about this disjuncture, and one response is to try to avoid all such problems. Will Wright's Sims speak only in gibberish sounds and visual icons, so that the surface representation of language matches the very simple internal representation of what they can discuss. Chris Crawford currently plans for his new storytelling system to avoid the construction of English-like sentences found in Storytron — instead moving to an icon language intended to help players better understand the internal representations (much more complex than those in The Sims) on which his story system will operate.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 22.06.2012 - 16:55