Theory, History and Foundations -- Interpretation as Play: A Cognitive Psychological Model of Inference and Situation Model Construction -- When has theory ever failed us? -- A Refinement-Based Narrative Model for Escape Games -- Social and Cultural Contexts -- IDNs in Education: Skills for Future Generations -- Centering the Human: Digital Humanism and the Practice of Using Generative AI in the Authoring of Interactive Digital Narratives -- Digital storytelling in women in tech communities -- VR storytelling to prime uncertainty avoidance -- Inclusive Digital Storytelling: Artificial Intelligence and Augmented Reality to re-centre Stories from the Margins -- Decolonizing IDN pedagogy from and with Global South:a a cross-cultural case study -- Fighting Against Hate Speech: a case for harnessing Interactive Digital Counter-narratives -- VR for Diversity. The Seven Lives of a Research Project -- Tools and Systems -- Awash: Prospective Story Sifting Intervention for Emergent Narrative -- Prompt Engineering for Narrative Choice Generation -- The Narralive Unity plug-in: Towards bridging the gap between intuitive branching narrative design and advanced visual novel development -- Interactive Narrative Design -- Discovering IDN Authoring Strategies: Novices Anchor Choice Design through Character Development With Player Feedback -- On the Interactions Between Narrative Puzzles and Navigation Aids in Open World Games -- Lovecraftian Horror in Story-Driven Games: Narrative Design Challenges and Solutions -- Designing Sisters: Creating Audio-Based Narratives to Generate Affective Connections and Material Story Worlds -- Bookwander: From Printed Fiction to Virtual Reality - Four Design Approaches for Enhanced VR Reading Experiences -- Story-without-end: a structure for open-world cinematic VR -- Integrating Narrative Design into the World Economic Forum's Transformation Maps for Enhance Complexity Comprehension -- Full-Motion Video as Parameterized Replay Stories: Emerging Design Patterns from the Timeline Authoring Platform -- From Playing the Story to Gaming the System: Repeat Experiences of a Large Language Model-based Interactive Story-. A Board Game Hootopia: Biodiversity Education through Tangible and Interactive Narrative.