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A New Generation Takes the Helm: Looking at the Legend of Star Trek
My parents aren’t geeks, but they have always loved Star Trek. That early exposure, starting from the age of five, may have been the starting point of geekdom for me, as it’s the first evidence I have...
View ArticleTales2Go: Great Stories, on an Okay App
Tales2Go is an an app that delivers stories for your children straight to your phone. Nothing extraordinarily new about that, and the company knows it. They are pitching to the crowded app store market...
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Exercise Your Creativity Muscle With Rory’s Story Cubes®
In today’s age of being plugged in to some kind of electronic much of the time, it is good to unplug on a regular basis and just have some quality fun with others. And if you are learning at the ...
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Story Patch: A New Storytelling iPad App for Fun, Education and Sharing
I recently had the opportunity to meet with Matt Wymore, the creator of Story Patch, a new storytelling app for the iPad. Story Patch allows kids to create their own stories, either guided by the...
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Tell Me a Story: 3 Games of Creative Storytelling
The art of telling stories is an important one even in this digital age. Even if we don’t sit around a fire every night passing down old tales and making up new ones, I think we’d all agree that a ...
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Simplifying D&D (You know, for kids?)
I was entering junior high when I was introduced to Dungeons & Dragons. The first edition had been out a couple years. Growing up just 20 miles south of Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, I’m surprised it...
View ArticleSimplifying D&D — You Know, for Kids? (GeekDad Weekly Rewind)
I was entering junior high when I was introduced to Dungeons & Dragons. The first edition had been out a couple years. Growing up just 20 miles south of Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, I’m surprised it...
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Roll Over Writer’s Block With Writer’s Dice
Prolific game designer and master of Kickstarter, Daniel Solis, is at it again with his latest project: Writer’s Dice. It’s a simple enough idea: a six-sided die with words imprinted on the sides. Toss...
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Herodex: Superheroes and Storytelling
The villainous Flashback lay quivering on the floor, still covered in the debilitating cheese from his last battle. Wormhole unsheathed the nib of his Cosmic Pen and drew a portal. In a shimmer, the...
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CowBird: Thoughtful Storytelling
I was fortunate to recently receive an invite to Cowbird. It is a very beautiful and purposeful place on the interwebs for storytelling and building a history of interconnectedness and interdependence...
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A Look at George R. R. Martin’s Game of Thrones Through the Lens of History
Just in time for the premiere this Sunday. The author of this article is Dr. Kelly DeVries, a fantastic history professor I was lucky enough to have when I attended Loyola University (then College) in...
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Creative Director for The Banner Saga Talks Kickstarter, RPG Heroes, and...
This week I finally got an opportunity to sit down with Alex Thomas, Creative Director for The Banner Saga and discuss their outrageously successful Kickstarter campaign, the corporate game industry,...
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Club Caveman Raises the Bar for iPad Storytelling
By expanding the scope of user interaction and raising game animation to movie quality, Club Caveman hopes to elevate kids’ engagement with narrative and push the limits on what an iPad does with...
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Simplifying D&D (You know, for kids?)
I was entering junior high when I was introduced to Dungeons & Dragons. The first edition had been out a couple years. Growing up just 20 miles south of Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, I'm surprised it...
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Exclusive: Whenabouts Kickstarter Ups the Ante for Tween Storytelling
The Whenabouts Kickstarter project uses mailed artifacts, a diary, videos and online puzzles to create a story aimed at tweens.
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A Collection of Children’s Ideas for the Future of Technology
Kids Vision: a collection of children's ideas for the future of technology is a fascinating new publication from Latitude. Latitude have been engaged in a wide range of projects that have engaged...
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Storypanda Makes Kids Into Content Creators
The power of touchscreens and tablets in the learning and development of our children is in the way it offers even young children the ability to create and produce their own work and stories in digital...
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A Closer Look at Story Realms Game Play
Story Realms offers a rich storytelling environment within which families can weave tales of magic and adventure.
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Technology and Storytelling, Part 1: Transmedia World-Building
More and more entertainment companies are building large complex story worlds and sharing the storytelling load among different types of media.
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After Mass Effect: Redefining Videogame Storytelling
Once the reigning master of videogame storytelling, BioWare is getting some serious competition from indie studios.
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