storytelling Archives

‘Writing Interactive Fiction With Twine’

September 4, 2016December 13, 2017Rebecca Angel5

Twine is an interactive fiction game creator, and this book is going to help you write your stories.

Tell a Group Story With ‘StoryLine: Fairy Tales’

July 18, 2016Jenny Bristol

If your kids or your family enjoy storytelling games, but would like a bit more structure than the norm, ‘StoryLine: Fairy Tales’ deserves a look.

The superhero my best friend and I created when I was 17, and his salamander sidekick. Image by Amy Matviya, 1995!

Comics Vs. Superheroes: Notes From a “Fake Geek Girl”

June 9, 2016Amy Weir

It’s true not all comics are about superheroes. But likewise, not all superhero fans are comics fans.

Keep Kids Creating With ‘The Superhero Comic Kit’!

September 26, 2015Jenny Bristol

Kids love to create and come up with some of the most ingenious stories and drawings.

Make Your Very Own Batman Story With ‘Rory’s Story Cubes: Batman’

September 15, 2015Jenny Bristol

Unless 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.

Kickstarter Tabletop Alert: ‘Fall of Magic’ Storytelling Epic

May 22, 2015December 13, 2017Will James

Our 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.

Kickstarter Alert: Bedtime Bedding Makes Bedtime Fun and Creative

May 8, 2015Will James

Do 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.

Kickstarter Tabletop Alert: Adventurous Storytelling With ‘The Siblings Trouble’

May 7, 2015December 13, 2017Jonathan H. Liu

You’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!

Not-Too-Spooky Tales to Tell This Fall

October 9, 2014Lisa Tate1

Liven up the evening by telling these silly-not-scary stories.

Findery: A Social Network for Places

March 9, 2014December 13, 2017Tom Fassbender

Findery 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.

Killer of Enemies: Kick-Butt Heroine

December 9, 2013December 14, 2017Rebecca Angel

Killer 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.

Shuffle Up a Tale With Storyteller Cards

June 5, 2013December 13, 2017Jonathan H. Liu

If 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.

After Mass Effect: Redefining Videogame Storytelling

January 9, 2013Admin

Once the reigning master of videogame storytelling, BioWare is getting some serious competition from indie studios.

Technology and Storytelling, Part 1: Transmedia World-Building

October 19, 2012Erik Wecks

More and more entertainment companies are building large complex story worlds and sharing the storytelling load among different types of media.

A Closer Look at Story Realms Game Play

October 2, 2012December 13, 2017Erik Wecks

Story Realms offers a rich storytelling environment within which families can weave tales of magic and adventure.

Exclusive: Whenabouts Kickstarter Ups the Ante for Tween Storytelling

August 23, 2012December 13, 2017Erik Wecks

The Whenabouts Kickstarter project uses mailed artifacts, a diary, videos and online puzzles to create a story aimed at tweens.

Club Caveman Raises the Bar for iPad Storytelling

July 16, 2012December 13, 2017Kevin Makice

By 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 …

Creative Director for The Banner Saga Talks Kickstarter, RPG Heroes, and Story in Games

April 30, 2012Erik Wecks

This 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.

A Look at George R. R. Martin’s Game of Thrones Through the Lens of History

March 31, 2012December 16, 2017Natania Barron

Just 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. …

Herodex: Superheroes and Storytelling

January 3, 2012December 13, 2017Kevin Makice

The 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 …

Roll Over Writer’s Block With Writer’s Dice

November 4, 2011December 13, 2017Michael Harrison

Prolific 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: …

Simplifying D&D — You Know, for Kids? (GeekDad Weekly Rewind)

August 20, 2011Admin

I 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 …

Tell Me a Story: 3 Games of Creative Storytelling

March 28, 2011Jonathan H. Liu

Fictionaire 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 …

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