Using Social Media for Interactive Storytelling Intro Thesis statement and design context – Interactive stories are usually a solo experience; with today’s technology interactive stories can evolve to include more than one user to interact with the story. By providing…
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Process
The Process The visual portion of my thesis will be an online application for interactive stories where users will be able to add a story node or event that either enabled or hindered a user’s progress of a story. The…
bibliography – explanation text for thesis site
42Entertainment – An American company based in Burbank which specializes in creating and producing alternate reality games (ARGs). Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg – Facebook is an online social networking service. Mark Zuckerberg is one of five co-founders of the social networking website Facebook.…
Its not about THINGS!
I dove back into my research notes and reread a few chapters from Chris Crawford’s book Interactive Stories. Here’s a quick excerpt from chapter one in regards to games: Games concern themselves with things: things you acquire, things you use,…
Give me X item(s) is so boring… let’s spice it up!
After a good long chat with Professor Fu it was apparent that just posting requests to the social sites asking for items is just absolutely stale and I had to step back and ask what can be different? What can…
User Actions
New User Path – Player (need final inner story node screen): Create Account Fill in name, email, username and password Create an Avatar Join or Create a Team (teams are an additional feature) Choose a storyline from Map (when teams…
Proto.io
Trucking along with Proto.io for the low fidelity prototype. I know I only had like half of the wires finished but I figured that a low fidelity prototype was more important and technically its working wireframes anyway with proto.io Proto.io…
Prototype title and add’l user interactions
Possible titles (I will need to check domain availability): Fictitious Meanderings Fictitious Journeys Fictitious Adventures Legendary Meanderings Legendary Journeys Legendary Adventures Now about the additional user interaction. As I was asking around on facebook as to what could make…
Thesis Site Updated
Content will be changed out… I have placeholders right now. But the layout of the site has been updated to fit more of the interactive story feel. The navigation will be updated later to highlight the nav based on the…
Updated Bibliographies…
I still need to fill out the rest of the info for the bibliographies but here is the initial/updated list: Inspiring Interactive stories Red Planet Rex – a voice controlled mobile adventure game – https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1816553564/red-planet-rex-a-voice-controlled-mobile-adventure?ref=live Interactive Story blog…