Interactive Storytelling

Not only do I think twitter is the best thing since MySpace (in fact it makes MySpace look so passe) but I am equally enamored with twitterific, the fictional offshoot of the lifestreaming site. I've been hearing a lot about collaborative storytelling lately. There was even a panel at SXSW which I unfortunately could not attend.

It reminds me of an experiment I conducted three years ago when I was a media studies graduate student at the New School. I had been examining ways in which storytelling as a means for learning about one’s culture and traditions might translate to virtual spaces, and how concepts common to games might work within that process. So I attempted to create an online storytelling environment that would test these ideas and examine how systems related to storytelling. The experience proved to be one of emergent storytelling where content was created through the process of engagement.

You can read more about it, or read the stories themselves. And if you know of other interactive storytelling sites of this vain, please feel free to post them here.