A peek at the future of interactive storytelling?

by Alex Rainert on November 9, 2009 · 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.

  • That's just brilliant!
  • simple interactivity in story telling that works - powerful stuff.
  • rain_in_fog
    wow, really interesting and great design for human!
  • arainert
    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.
  • Mrs. Brockhoff
    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.
  • Awesome :)
  • "Multipurpose" means "super-multipurpose" if we talk about the iPhone. Great prototype.

    Alex
  • kipbot
    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.)
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