I have been pondering the total reliance on Twitter and Facebook and realize that not all social media networks are to last forever. Take a look at MySpace and how its audience base has changed in the past few years.…
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Twitter Geo-Location Usage
Since the point is to use the social media entities Twitter and Facebook it made me think of how else could they be used beside spamming the audience with request links? Well Twitter does have geo-location api which could be…
Another story creator…
While perusing the proper etiquette for tweets and likes I found the following site, Storybird, that I thought was interesting and is kind of like what I was planning on doing for my prototype. It is also very similar to…
Influences and onward to prototyping
Influences: I’ll be diving deeper into influential technology, sites and people listed below soon. 42Entertainment Mark Zuckerberg Jim Butcher – one of my favorite authors for this guy knows how to write a story that really engages the reader Facebook…
Anti-group users
What if there is a user that wants to interact with the story by themselves with no help from others? This happens a lot and I myself will claim that I am guilty of doing this for many of the…
Breathe new life!
Here we are again with figuring out the problem… its there in the back of my mind so I will do my best to coax it out into the open. As I see it is that interactive stories on a…
Formulation of thesis statement is so close….
The idea for the project is taking the interactive story and utilize Facebook and Twitter to continue the story. However the twist is that the user needs to work with others to unlock certain story nuggets to continue down certain…
Interactive Storytelling Notes
The following notes/passages/excerpts are from the book (pgs. 339-342) The Art of Interactive Design: A Euphonious and Illuminating Guide to Building Successful Software by Chris Crawford. eISBN: 9781593270193 pISBN: 9781886411845 My notes are marked in red and italicized. The rest…
Interactive Stories – What’s wrong or what can be improved?
Upon my search for what could be wrong or what can be improved for interactive stories I am finding the following commonalities amongst the patents and claims: Stories The story line is boring if kept linear. Adding the ability to…
Discovering Problems to Solve
In my quest to find a design problem to solve I found some articles that will help me find the problems often ignored in interactive stories. I know that some of these are academic but it is good to remind…