‘Writing Interactive Fiction With Twine’
Twine is an interactive fiction game creator, and this book is going to help you write your stories.
Continue ReadingTwine is an interactive fiction game creator, and this book is going to help you write your stories.
Continue ReadingIf your kids or your family enjoy storytelling games, but would like a bit more structure than the norm, ‘StoryLine: Fairy Tales’ deserves a look.
Continue ReadingIt’s true not all comics are about superheroes. But likewise, not all superhero fans are comics fans.
Continue ReadingKids love to create and come up with some of the most ingenious stories and drawings.
Continue ReadingUnless you write fanfiction or love to cosplay as someone from the Batman universe, you’ve probably not concocted your own Batman tales. Perhaps you would prefer a different origin story. Or maybe you think Batman should become one of the bad guys for once. Or you just want to solve custom crimes, chosen by you, with Batman at the helm. You can make these stories a reality with this new dice set.
Continue ReadingOur family really enjoys great storytelling games. ‘Fall of Magic’ not only has a novel and beautiful game mechanic but also brings a fresh yet familiar fantasy setting and theme to the storytelling genre that we thoroughly enjoyed.
Continue ReadingDo you have a hard time getting your little one to go to bed at night? Or are you hard pressed for time for a story before bed? Bedtime Bedding recently launched on Kickstarter and brings a brand new way to make bedtime and story time fun, creative, and interactive.
Continue ReadingYou’ve got your lucky penny in your pocket and your siblings by your side as you sneak out to the abandoned junkyard—looking for adventure, danger, mischief, or mayhem. What will you find around that pile of rusted cars? Who knows what treasures are hidden just around the bend? Play ‘The Siblings Trouble’ and find out!
Continue ReadingLiven up the evening by telling these silly-not-scary stories.
Continue ReadingFindery isn’t just a social network where people check in to places, it’s a community where people come to tell their stories about places.
Continue ReadingKiller of Enemies by Joseph Bruchac is about Lozen, a young warrior trying to keep her family alive in a post-apocalyptic world where electricity no longer works and monsters and myths once again roam the earth. Lozen’s most powerful tool is her compassion.
Continue ReadingIf you’ve been reading GeekDad for a while, you may already be familiar with Rory’s Story Cubes, a set of dice with little pictures that can be used to create stories. I’ve seen a lot of other similar types of writing prompts, from the StoryWorld Create-a-Story sets to Daniel Solis’ Writer’s Dice to the Storymatic. Here’s a new one that caught my attention: Storyteller Cards by Jason Tagmire.
Continue ReadingOnce the reigning master of videogame storytelling, BioWare is getting some serious competition from indie studios.
Continue ReadingMore and more entertainment companies are building large complex story worlds and sharing the storytelling load among different types of media.
Continue ReadingStory Realms offers a rich storytelling environment within which families can weave tales of magic and adventure.
Continue ReadingThe Whenabouts Kickstarter project uses mailed artifacts, a diary, videos and online puzzles to create a story aimed at tweens.
Continue ReadingBy expanding the scope of user interaction and raising game animation to movie quality, Club Caveman hopes to elevate kids’ engagement with narrative and push the limits on what an iPad does with storytelling. Ben Sweat of Caffeine-Free talks about …
Continue ReadingThis week I finally got an opportunity to sit down with Alex Thomas, Creative Director for The Banner Saga and discuss their outrageously successful Kickstarter campaign, the corporate game industry, Eyvind Earle, and storytelling in video games.
Continue ReadingJust in time for the premiere this Sunday. The author of this article is Dr. Kelly DeVries, a fantastic history professor I was lucky enough to have when I attended Loyola University (then College) in Maryland during my undergraduate years. …
Continue ReadingThe villainous Flashback lay quivering on the floor, still covered in the debilitating cheese from his last battle. Wormhole unsheathed the nib of his Cosmic Pen and drew a portal. In a shimmer, the fortress vault appeared on the other …
Continue ReadingProlific game designer and master of Kickstarter, Daniel Solis, is at it again with his latest project: Writer’s Dice. It’s a simple enough idea: a six-sided die with words imprinted on the sides. Toss the dice and get a word: …
Continue ReadingI was entering junior high when I was introduced to Dungeons & Dragons. The first edition had been out a couple years. Growing up just 20 miles south of Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, I’m surprised it took that long to discover …
Continue ReadingFictionaire Overview: Released last September, Fictionaire is a game about bluffing the other players — whether it’s making up definitions for obscure words, inventing stories about science and nature or coming up with strange-but-true tales. Players: 4 to 7 (or …
Continue ReadingI recently had the opportunity to meet with Matt Wymore, the creator of Story Patch, a new storytelling app for the iPad. Story Patch allows kids to create their own stories, either guided by the program or all on their …
Continue ReadingIn today’s age of being plugged in to some kind of electronic much of the time, it is good to unplug on a regular basis and just have some quality fun with others. And if you are learning at the …
Continue ReadingMy parents aren’t geeks, but they have always loved Star Trek. That early exposure, starting from the age of five, may have been the starting point of geekdom for me, as it’s the first evidence I have of the effects …
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