A peek at the future of interactive storytelling?

by Alex Rainert on November 9, 2009 · View Comments

in Design,Design in the Wild,Gold Star,Inspiration,Product,Thoughts

I was completely blown away by this video the first time through. Such a simple, low-tech, solution produces such an amazingly rich, engaging experience that’s just bursting with possibility for further creativity.

While it’s just a concept at this point, you can see how it can make a new kind of storytelling available to the masses in a way that wouldn’t have seemed possible not that long ago.

There’s some more info here but it’s in Japanese.

{ 9 comments }

1 kipbot November 9, 2009 at 8:41 am: This is pretty awesome. What's most exciting is that touchscreens needn't be limited to iPhone fairly soon. Now all we need is a present-day version of hypercard that takes the tech work out the storytelling. The XO has a nifty little piece of software called eToys, that allows for all sorts of interactions like the one showed above. (Of course I would go to XO.)
2 alexisbrion November 10, 2009 at 6:36 am: “Multipurpose” means “super-multipurpose” if we talk about the iPhone. Great prototype.

Alex
3 vivek November 14, 2009 at 3:14 am: Awesome
4 Mrs. Brockhoff November 16, 2009 at 8:33 am: That was awesome! As a mother and early childhood teacher I am captivated (my boys as well). I can't wait to see how it all comes out. I will definitely be looking for updates on your project.
5 arainert November 16, 2009 at 1:49 pm: Hi all, So glad so many people have enjoyed this post. To be clear, while I really love this project, it is by no means mine. I do plan on following where it goes and will try and post updates as they happen.
6 rain_in_fog November 21, 2009 at 9:16 am: wow, really interesting and great design for human!
7 Mei Lin Fung December 15, 2009 at 9:04 pm: simple interactivity in story telling that works – powerful stuff.
8 Mei Lin Fung December 16, 2009 at 5:04 am: simple interactivity in story telling that works – powerful stuff.
9 Nathanael Boehm January 3, 2010 at 1:38 am: That's just brilliant!