storymaking and i.t.
The Story Making and I.T. project was an attempt to
engage people of secondary-school age with the processes and benefits of
storytelling, whilst tapping into their own interests and skills.
It involved the use of Neverwinter Nights, a
computer role-play game, to encourage participants to generate stories of their
own.
The story is told through dialogue that is assigned to
each individual character. The beauty of this is that, like storytelling, the
story will be different every time because the player has to make choices as to
how the dialogue will proceed. There are, however, limits to the software's
capabilities which means that sometimes ideas cannot be completely realized.
The project, led by David Murray, was a great success.
The project funder was: