Category Archives: Dramatica Unchained

Using Dramatica Theory for Interactive Fiction (IF)

Posted on October 30, 2015 by Melanie Anne Phillips

My response to a Dramatica user who had questions about using Dramatica Theory for creating narratives for interactive fiction: Here’s the gist of using Dramatica for IF (we have made a number of presentations on this to various companies over … Continue reading →

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Deciphering Lost Languages with Dramatica

Posted on January 1, 2013 by Melanie Anne Phillips

All language is based on narrative.  And since Dramatica maps narrative upon the structure of the Table of Story Elements, each narrative that might hold meaning in a language can be perceived as a pattern of interconnected story points. Therefore, … Continue reading →

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Dramaticapedia – “Ability”

Posted on October 3, 2012 by Sheldon

What’s “Ability” have to do with story structure? If you look in Dramatica’s “Periodic Table of Story Elements” chart (you can download a free PDF of the chart at http://storymind.com/free-downloads/ddomain.pdf ) you’ll find the “ability” in one of the little … Continue reading →

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Trigonometry and Dramatica

Posted on August 26, 2012 by Melanie Anne Phillips

Here’s another clue for you all…. Though it wasn’t discovered through mathematics, Dramatica’s model of story psychology can, in fact, be described by mathematics – at least to an extent. Here’s the clue – In the Dramatica quad, there are … Continue reading →

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Dramatica: Out of Balance

Posted on March 16, 2012 by Melanie Anne Phillips

Here’s a note from a Dramatica user and my reply. (Careful, highly technical discussion follows that bears little connection to stories or writing) Dramatica user: Just as an experiement, I cleared the storyform, and opened the plot progression screen. I … Continue reading →

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Definitive Scientific Article on Dramatica Theory

Posted on October 2, 2011 by Melanie Anne Phillips

Here is a link to the definitive explanation of the Dramatica theory (in PDF) from 1993, that explains all of the key concepts in text and graphics, including descriptions of non-story uses of the psychological model and the functioning of … Continue reading →

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God and Dramatica

Posted on October 2, 2011 by Melanie Anne Phillips

Now here’s a touchy subject.  Still, over the years, many have taken a philosophical, even spiritual view of Dramatica.  There are even some who have drawn a comparison between Dramatica’s 64 elements and the 64 trigrams of the I Ching.   … Continue reading →

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Ideas vs. Theories

Posted on February 16, 2011 by Melanie Anne Phillips

One of my pet peeves and personal frustrations is how great ideas – truly revolutionary paradigm shifts – are often lost in the bundled clothing of a larger concept, hypothesis or theory. A case in point:  In the Dramatica theory … Continue reading →

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Watson and Dramatica: Building an Artificial Mind

Posted on February 14, 2011 by Melanie Anne Phillips

Watson and Dramatica: Building an Artificial Mind By Melanie Anne Phillips Some twenty years ago, upon realizing that the structure of stories was actually a model of the mind itself, Chris and I began to wonder if that model could serve as … Continue reading →

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Dramatica & Non-linear Game Theory

Posted on February 7, 2011 by Melanie Anne Phillips

In regard to non-linear video game story structuring, in fact, that is where Dramatica excels in ways no other system has been able to achieve.  To illustrate how, we need to take a few steps back and then work our … Continue reading →

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