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Dr. Nick Montfort
by Ian Bogost June 20, 2007
categories: General

Friend and collaborator Nick Montfort has defended his dissertation, Generating Narrative Variation in Interactive Fiction! Congrats Nick!

The diss is about computational narration, specifically automating different narration styles in Interactive Fiction, which Nick knows a thing or two about. Nick posted a summary of his defense talk over on Grand Text Auto.

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Thanks, Ian! It's good to reach this milestone ... there is, of course, a lot left to with narrative variation, which is a really rich area for research. I'm looking forward to developing nn further and to working on other important projects, for instance, at the platform level.