- #FutureOfFiction, #FutureOfStorytelling, #Unity, Greyville Writer's Colony, interactive books, interactive content, Interactive Novel, Random
Bringing Interactive Virtual Environments to the Kindle
Don’t tell Mr Bezos but I hacked my Kindle so I could download apps from the Google Play store. I particularly wanted to be able to get a better browser. In answer to a user question as to whether the storytelling environment we are building would run in Chrome. This is Chrome running on a Kindle Fire HD 10. I believe the OS for that is a fork of Android 7 (Nougat). There is no navigation interface for mobile devices in our app yet. It is a goal. The ultimate goal of this project is to create storytelling environments that will run inside an ebook. Let’s say you are…
- Blind Heat, Blog Tour, call to adventure, Hero's Journey, impossible dreams, interactive books, Nara Malone
Attaining Impossible Dreams
If you’re going to dream, dream big, right? I have have a pretty big dream. Some might say it’s impossible. I view it as a quest, my call to adventure. I’m at Rachel Leigh’s today talking about my journey toward the dream and the levels I’ve attained in pursuit of that dream. Drop buy and tell me about your impossible dream.
- book design, E-books, ebooks, Immersive Fiction, interactive books, interactive fiction, myebooks, read an e-book week, writer's block, writing
Building Better E-books
Why don’t we have tons of dynamic, interactive, visually stunning e-books? The potential has been there for years. It has been there since project Gutenberg launched its e-text repository. It has grown with the first experiments in hypertext fiction and interactive adventure stories. The development of programming languages and scripts, advances in graphic design using HTML and CSS, all opened the doors to possibilities for building better books. Yet when I downloaded Calibre the other night and finally catalogued all of my 1,016 e-books, I was struck by how little evolution we’ve seen in the book. Most were plain text. A few had pictures. At one time websites were just text…
