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This paper presents an approach to the production of web-based interactive fiction, which is grounded in the requirements posed by an expert focus group, and which integrates a domain-specific language (DSL) for interactive fiction (HEXIFE) and an authoring tool for this DSL (IFDBMaker). HEXIFE is an extension of HMTL5 that includes markup specifically devoted to different aspects of interactive fiction, such as hyperlinking, choice points, personalization, stretchtext, annotations, conditional content, and gamification. This DSL, which can be easily extended with new interactive fiction behaviors, is supported by a runtime environment based on conventional web technologies (HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Web Components, PHP, and MySQL). IFDBMaker, in turn, piggybacks in a widely used web-based HTML editing framework (TinyMCE) to allow the creation of interactive HEXIFE fiction through a user-friendly approach. A postmortem evaluation shows how: (i) the approach makes the feasibility of supporting interactive fiction on conventional web technologies apparent; and (ii) the approach is a feasible one to actively involve writers in the final production of interactive fiction that are distributed and played through the web. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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