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Definition-narrative:
“How do you communicate pattern-type information to a pattern-recognizing mental module using a sequential medium such as language? In computer terms, the data is in the wrong format for the communications link!
What’s needed is a reformatter, something that converts one thinking format to the other. Narrative is that reformatter. It’s an ad-hoc solution to an ugly interfacing problem that arose early in the development of language.”

“Any way that humankind has invented to lie to each other should be part of your storytelling toolkit.”

Storytelling generations

Bard 1.0 – old dead Greek blind guys
Bard 2.0 – Greek theatre – parallel bards
Bard 3.0 – book – scalable bards
Bard 4.0 – cinema – parallel scalable bards
Bard 5.0 – digital storytelling (not the Hartley type)

Today there is a separation of form and content. The content is the story, the form depends on how it is accessed.

There is a cultural tension between what we express and what we desire:

www.youtube.com (24.03.2010)

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“Pervasive games generally tend to require a lot of content to function properly. Insectopia circumvents this by using the existing infrastructure around a player to generate resources for a game.”

Woolly Days ~ Digital Storytelling (17.08.2009)