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…
Category: Research
Further Development
These past nine weeks have flown by with doing research for the new direction of my thesis and creating a prototype to demonstrated how the visual portion would work. Since I am still doing research a revised draft is not…
Formal Bibliography
Social Media Aaker, Jennifer Lynn., Andy Smith, and Carlye Adler. The Dragonfly Effect: Quick, Effective, and Powerful Ways to Use Social Media to Drive Social Change. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2010. Print. Coleman, David. 42 Rules for Successful Collaboration a Practical Approach…
Low-Fidelity Prototype
I have published the low-fidelity prototype on proto.io. The only requirement to view this project is to make sure the browser it is viewed in has HTML5 and CSS3 abilities alongs with JavaScript enabled. https://foxglove1028.proto.io/share/?id=57893ba6-c0cd-4bde-a8ec-9a0944ca6d1a&v=3
Outline – Simple
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…