Hyperlinks and Story Arcs: Building Non-Linear Narratives Online - Speaker Deck

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Hyperlinks & Story Arcs Building Non-Linear Narratives Online

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Hello. Senongo Akpem @senongo

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nairaland.com/naptu2 Kwagh-hir

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Pixel Fable pixelfable.com

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So... How do we tell non-linear stories?

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Start with narrative content blocks

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ernestgoh.com wat.

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narrative content blocks video links text audio location images data

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narrative content blocks video links text audio location images data

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narrative content blocks video links text audio location images data

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narrative content blocks video links text audio location images data

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narrative content blocks video links text audio location images data

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narrative content blocks video links text audio location images data

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narrative content blocks video links text audio location images data

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narrative content blocks video links text audio location images data

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Organizing your narrative content

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wikipedia.org Go deeper.

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ﬂuid content strategy is critical for non-linear narratives

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Create experiences that are not just hierarchical or linear, but flexible, modular, relational, and semantic. -Sara Wachter-Boettcher

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Set narrative goals

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Create narrative schedules

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Conductrr tstoryteller.com

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non-linear narratives depend heavily on your audience

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One of the challenges facing designers of intelligent storytelling systems is how to balance tension between user and author control. -Joshua Tanenbaum & Angela Tomizu

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discovery feedback ‘what is’ vs ‘what if’

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Hi hi.co

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discovery feedback ‘what is’ vs ‘what if’

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Death is Certain dice.gwil.co

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discovery feedback ‘what is’ vs ‘what if’

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Designing cohesive narratives

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Create threads.

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visual threads interactive threads spatial threads

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Whale Hunt thewhalehunt.org

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visual threads interactive threads spatial threads

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#MurderProject unlinear.tv

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visual threads interactive threads spatial threads

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Voices From The Collosseum colosseum.bridgingmedia.net

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Knowledge... can now be accessed through a network of links in which a spatial relation between component parts can be preserved. -person -Janet Marles

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create one central thread through your narrative

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A few examples.

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extra narrative

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An Idea Lives On anidealiveson.org

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disjointed narrative

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Life After Wartime - Bystander lifeafterwartime.com

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parallel narrative

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Moon unahistoriaquedalavuelta.com/en

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database narrative

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Inequality Map newyorker.com/sandbox/business/subway.html

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micro narrative

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Lost Nigeria lostnigeria.com

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This is my call for more non-linear storytelling.

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Transmedia storytelling is the ideal aesthetic form for an era of collective intelligence. -Henry Jenkins

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Thank You! @senongo (slides, tools, and more at senongo.net)

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