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An interactive documentary that tells its narrative through audio and segmented timed clips, while the main form is a navigable map of the Grizzly's habitat. You can follow the bear's path through its life physically, or venture off on your own narrative. Extremely powerful stuff.

This week, we explain why settling on a story before you've started your game may be a bad idea. Come discuss this topic in the forums ! -I don't know if I agree with all of this, but it's good to think about.

Anita Sarkeesian talks about online misogyny in the video game community, and her experience with harassment because of her work. She is a media critic and the creator of Feminist Frequency, a video webseries that explores the representations of women in pop culture narratives. Most interesting is her actual project which can be found here. http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBBDFEC9F5893C4AF

An in depth look at the guy who penned the entire overarching narrative of the Assassin's Creed series. More importantly, an article pointing at the growing need and want of storytellers for the design of games. Good stuff! 

A novel released in 1500 word segments each day through an iphone application. Part of the work can only be read if physically in the geolocation which coordinates with the text. These optional side stories, called "field reports", are tied back into the larger narrative. They are written in relation to the surroundings which they are placed, so the reader is getting visual cues by the setting. By Matthew Derby. He is also the senior interface designer for Harmonix. 

This is pretty cool! Another Emerson VMA student, Frank Horton, had a start up company that was attempting to do something similar to this idea.

Andrew Plotkin review

about Aaron Reed's latest work--a review by Andrew Plotkin

the emerging genre of #sootfall, currently being improvised via twitter

Storytelling website... of potential interest

thanks to Stephen Hewitt for sharing this

by Damian Ward Hey

I read about this in Henry Jenkins' "Game Design as Narrative Architecture" in FIRST PERSON.

by Clara Fernandez Vara

just met this woman at writer's group for interactive fiction. She uses memory palaces in her recent work!!