Archive for February, 2009

WRT has it on good authority (the authors’) that Chris Crawford, collaborating with Laura J. Mixon, is readying the full launch of an interactive story-authoring system almost 20 years in the making. Introducing “SWAT” (Storyworld Authoring Tool) and Storyteller (the software for playing a SWAT Storyworld). Crawford first took on this epic quest […]

Carolyn Miller who literally wrote the book on “Digital Storytelling” is delivering a talk at USC on the origins of this class of lit.
Here’s the info:

Carolyn Miller: DIGGING FOR THE ROOTS OF INTERACTIVE STORYTELLING
12:30 pm, Wed. Feb 18
Cinematic Arts Building (SCA) 112
University of Southern California
Free and open to the public
A talk by Carolyn Handler Miller
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A few years ago, we blogged about the movie-making tool built into Activision’s Sim-Tycoon video Game The Movies. It had proved an easy-to-use and powerful tool for creating the machinima “22 Short Films about Grammar.” Now it seems an even easier-to-use movie-making film is coming to a web browser near you.
Enter Xtranormal, an […]