Fundamentals of Interactivity | Interactive Storytelling Tools for Writers | Chris Crawford

How storytelling can help articulate emotions that evolve as the climate changes

Creative works can represent emotions emerging so fast that our brains can’t quite catch up with them.

The role of storytelling in the creation of brand love: the PANDORA case

The study of storytelling and brand love is justified by the need to understand the potential of storytelling as a tool that marketers have available to positively influence the love felt by the consumers toward a particular brand. In this case, we ...

WRKSHP.tools | Storytelling Canvas

Create better stories and presentations in under 45 minutes using the Storytelling Canvas

Weaving Narratives into Procedural Worlds

Examining the value, characteristics, and methods of integrating static narratives into otherwise procedurally generated environments.

Food, foragers, and folklore: the role of narrative in human subsistence

Narrative is a species-typical, reliably developing, complex cognitive process whose design is unlikely to have emerged by chance. Moreover, the folklore record indicates that narrative content is consistent across widely divergent cultures. I have argued elsewhere that a storyteller may use narrative to manipulate an audience's representations of the social and/or physical environment to serve his or her own fitness ends. However, my subsequent research suggests that such manipulation results from a broader selection pressure which narrative effectively alleviates: information acquisition. By substituting verbal representations for potentially costly first-hand experience, narrative enables an individual to safely and efficiently acquire information pertinent to the pursuit of fitness in local habitats. If this hypothesis is true, narrative should be rich with information useful to the pursuit of fitness. One class of information integral to the accomplishment of this task is foraging knowledge. In this paper, then, I present evidence that foraging peoples use narrative to transmit subsistence information: specifically, I demonstrate how various narrative devices (e.g., setting, description, mimicry, anthropomorphism) are used to communicate foraging knowledge.

Master 4 Layers of Storytelling to Make Your Art Unforgettable

You think storytelling is just for writers? Wrong. The story you craft—not just on canvas, but in your journey, your impact, and in your own mind—could make your art impossible to ignore.

The Brand Story Canvas — Strategic Tool for Storytelling

Craft powerful brand stories with our Brand Story Canvas. Trusted by HEC Paris, EPFL & ESSEC, it guides you through 7 steps to an engaging, authentic narrative.

Home - Participant

A pioneer of socially conscious storytelling, Participant drives real-world impact and awareness around today's most vital issues.

User Story: a Placeholder for a Conversation

User stories are meant to be a placeholder for a conversation. This article dives into the differences between user stories and tickets, where stories came from and how recent trends are moving us away from conversations. It shows the impact this is having on product development and easy ways to improve collaboration through conversation and writing better stories.

Why Storytelling Matters When Changing Company Culture

A conversation with the University of Utah’s Jay Barney about how leaders who successfully drive cultural change communicate through authentic, compelling stories.

4-Layers, A Narrative Design Approach

Introduction This blog post will be about a new way to approach narrative design in games - the 4 Layers Approach. It is based on a GDC ...

A People’s History of Tech

A collective storytelling project to build a more representative history that reflects the human impacts of technology.

Cory Doctorow: Stories Are a Fuggly Hack - Locus

I've mentioned before, stories are weird. I mean, really, really weird. Nothing that happens in a piece of fiction has any consequence in the real world. Romeo and Juliet did not live, did not die, and the ''tragedy'' they represent is objectively less important than the tragedy of the live yogurt culture I digested at the breakfast table this morning. My theory is that the parts of our brains that …Read More

Storyteller.fit | Blog your own cycling, running and sport stories. Powered by Strava

Create beautiful stories based on the activities you recorded on Strava. From single activities to entire seasons collect the adventures and achievements of your active life.