Narrative Engagement in Games – A Continuation Desire Perspective

User/player experiences may be evaluated in many ways, however, most concepts describing engagement with interactive artifacts tend to be complex and limited. This paper focuses on an aspect of engagement, which we believe, may be used to quantify any Interactive Storytelling (IS) experience. The willingness to continue an experience or Continuation Desire is a driver for meaningful and engaging experience, which is often overlooked. We believe that Continuation Desire is a useful tool for assessing narrative quality when combined with factors related to narrative engagement. We discuss possible aspects related to evaluating narrative engagement and Continuation Desire. The resulting framework represents a basis for evaluating IS artifacts (e.g games and IS applications) in future studies.