Monday 13 July 2009

Storytron

My colleague at Bangor, Astrid Ensslin, alerted me to a writing package called Storytron, devised by a games designer, Chris Crawford. How come I haven't spotted that one before?!

Took a look at quite a few pages about it, and it isn't doing what Genarrator will do - Storytron is a game-making programme. It also actually does some of the story-creation for the writer, once certain parameters have been coded in. It does appear to be aimed at 'nontechnical' writers, but it's still too technical for the community I'm aiming at.

Very interesting though, and does demonstrate to me how much interactive writing is still being discussed and evolved.

Check out these links if you're interested:
http://www.storytron.com/
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/10/15/storytron-interactiv.html#previouspost