A giant pair of scissors are embedded into the ground next to a multi-coloured structure in a virtual landscape

The Concentric Fictions of Literary Games

Sat 10 Aug, 4pm - 7pm | SOLD OUT
An examination of storytelling in Interactive media.

Learn about interactive storytelling with Studio Oleomingus.
Participants will create several prototypes for different stories using Twine.

Dhruv Jani (Studio Oleomingus) will be joining us on video chat to lead the workshop and discuss the different kinds of stories that can be told with interactive technologies.

Stories are a celebration of the act of witnessing. They are a veneration of circumstance, a ritual that preserves the privilege of observing an enactment in time.

Subject to the perfidy of authors, stories, as often recorded and encountered, are unexceptionally thin and flat. And they remain preserved in this diaphanous form without much change or dislocation, often in reverence for the original intent of the author who recorded them.

It is our contention that this devout preservation of an author’s intent withdraws from us our collective ability to tell certain kinds of stories.

That some tales can only be recorded if the violence of their recollection and the absurdity of their form is allowed to propagate – despite the intention of their original author.

It is this redaction of authorship from the telling of a tale – that we want to explore at this workshop.

Using Twine, a simple IF authoring tool, we will craft small games to examine stories that can only be told in such peculiar mediums. And study the profound dislocation of hegemonies caused by telling such stories – stories that are polluted by an ever changing narrator in the form of a player.

-Dhruv Jani

 
The event is suitable for all levels of experience.
Free, but space is limited. Booking is essential.
 
Several computers with access to Twine software will be available.

Alternatively, participants may choose to bring their own computers.

Twine can be installed on the day. An installer can also be found here.

Some suggested examples to look at before the workshop are:
Limits and Demonstrations by Cardboard Computer
The Temple of No by Crows Crows Crows
Counterfeit Monkey by Emily Short
A Museum of Dubious Splendors by Studio Oleomingus
My Father’s Long Long Legs by Michael Lutz