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Dramatica 10.0

Dramatica 10.0

July 24, 2006

What if all the unlimited possibilities of character and character interaction, infinite themes and every possible decision or action your characters can take could be represented by a single dot?

Tenth DimensionI’m sure Chris and Melanie will incorporate this into their next version of Dramatica.

The reason I bring this site up is that I remember one lecture that Melanie gave about how the math behind Dramatica actually allows one to convert space into time…or something to that effect. In other words, you’re figuring out all the story points (the choices you make in the software about the kind of story you want to tell), and Dramatica is able to take these individual pieces and convert them into their temporal form (the Plot Progression chart).

At least, I think that’s what it does.

Hmmmm….this could be something for further investigation.

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