- ARG, Immersive Fiction, interactive fiction, Kitely., Nara's Nook Contest, transmedia story, Virtual Worlds, Win NookColor
Nara’s Nook Contest: Nara Missing?
From September 1, 2011 Hey there, Bond and soon-to-be virtual-world explorers. Just checking in to let you know I’m on the job. Nara is not the most organized person, so I’m having to untangle this web of connectivity she left behind. For those of you who are just joining us, Nara has gone missing. Nara’s sexy chef from The Dungeon Gourmet, Bond, gives the details here. Personally, I think the plot bunnies have her, but we’ll get to all that as soon as I have a chance to post the journal pages Bond found. Don’t worry. We will find her and get her back here to take charge. I managed…
- 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…