10. Interactive Storytelling.

The Northern Digital Storytelling Festival is an online festival comprising 20 sessions designed to encourage collaboration, inspiration, and knowledge-share at the intersections between games, film and TV, XR and the more traditional creative industries, to encourage the furthering of ‘Digital Storytelling’ innovations in the North of England and beyond.

In this session we will learn how transmedia and interactive storytelling are used in theatre and beyond.  We will hear from Nina Roussakoff, founder of Lovewish Games, Simon Wilkinson and Myra Appennah from Bright Black, and Dr Ben Kirman from University of York.  Topics will include narrative choice design, insights for creating meaningful interactive storytelling experiences, and game design in theatre. They will also examine why video games have become the dominant cultural medium.