Abstract
This chapter explores how noir storytelling techniques might be applied to the production of 3-D interactive documentaries (3-D ID). The major characteristics of noir storytelling in the interactive 3-D medium, outlined in the introduction to this chapter, include: illusion of temporal immediacy, various perspectives, control, conflict, role-playing, spatial immersion and interactivity of the medium.
Possibilities for incorporating noir characteristics into documentary game production are discussed in the second section of this chapter.