Stephen sent this. It is definitely very cool:
Ben, I watched this video today on fora.tv about storytelling. I thought it was interesting what Penguin Digital Publisher Jeremy Ettinghousen had to say about the future of stories. He talked about the story forms of Pokemon and Yu Gi Uh from Japan. The video is long, but I copied these quotes down from the end.
“…what I think is gonna be a feature of really successful storytelling projects is, as the interactive era goes on, is that it allows fans to get deeper into the story and create their own twists on the story, and immerse themselves more fully in the story. Yu Gi Uh isn’t just something you watch, but something that you participate in. And I think stories that people can participate in and play in are going to be the most powerful stories of all.”
“Don’t let the story be a passive experience, let it be something that the can interact with, shape, develop, and take off and run with on their own.”
http://fora.tv/2009/09/23/Once_Upon_These_Times_New_Stories_for_New_Audiences
Stephen
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