{"id":10419,"date":"2023-06-16T09:37:50","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T07:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/16\/check-this-out-the-british-library-gets-into-gaming\/"},"modified":"2023-06-16T09:37:50","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T07:37:50","slug":"check-this-out-the-british-library-gets-into-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/06\/16\/check-this-out-the-british-library-gets-into-gaming\/","title":{"rendered":"Check this out: the British Library gets into gaming"},"content":{"rendered":"

Digital Storytelling, its new exhibition, shows how interactive technology has changed \u2013 and expanded \u2013 the way we tell stories<\/p>\n

When you walk into the British Library, the first thing you\u2019ll see \u2013 apart from people sitting in every available free space, writing on laptops or in notebooks \u2013 is a glass tower encasing rows upon rows of books, stretching up to the ceiling. It\u2019s fair to say that this place has a lot of experience when it comes to displaying stories. For digital, interactive stories, though, the classic glass case doesn\u2019t really work. These tales often invite the reader to play a part in the narrative and shape their own experience, but this can be difficult when you\u2019re standing in an exhibition room with people looking over your shoulder, waiting for their turn. Allowing for interactivity in the finite and often restrictive setting of an exhibition is not an easy task. But in its latest exhibition, Digital Storytelling, the British Library has tasked itself with just that.<\/p>\n

It is not the first time the British Library has featured digital works: however, it is the first time that an entire exhibition has revolved around \u201cthe ways in which digital technologies have shaped how we communicate and tell stories\u201d, as the curators put it. It features highly regarded commercial classics of interactive digital storytelling, such as the Inkle\u2019s 2014 steampunk narrative fiction game 80 Days<\/a>, and Nyamnyam\u2019s 2019 Elizabethan comedy narrative adventure Astrologaster<\/a>, sitting beside intimate personal narratives such as c ya laterrrr<\/a>, an autobiographical hypertext account of the loss of author Dan Hett\u2019s brother in the 2017 Manchester Arena terrorist attack. Despite the modest size of the exhibition room, the curators (Giulia Carla Rossi, Ian Cooke, and Stella Wisdom) have selected a wide range of pieces spanning genres, topics and emotions, made with a variety of digital tools.<\/p>\n

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\nDigital Storytelling, its new exhibition, shows how interactive technology has changed \u2013 and expanded \u2013 the way we tell stories
\nWhen you walk into the British Library, the first thing you\u2019ll see \u2013 apart from people sitting in every available free space, writing on laptops or in notebooks \u2013 is a glass tower encasing rows upon rows of books, stretching up to the ceiling. It\u2019s fair to say that this place has a lot of experience when it comes to displaying stories. For digital, interactive stories, though, the classic glass case doesn\u2019t really work. These tales often invite the reader to play a part in the narrative and shape their own experience, but this can be difficult when you\u2019re standing in an exhibition room with people looking over your shoulder, waiting for their turn. Allowing for interactivity in the finite and often restrictive setting of an exhibition is not an easy task. But in its latest exhibition, Digital Storytelling, the British Library has tasked itself with just that.
\nIt is not the first time the British Library has featured digital works: however, it is the first time that an entire exhibition has revolved around \u201cthe ways in which digital technologies have shaped how we communicate and tell stories\u201d, as the curators put it. It features highly regarded commercial classics of interactive digital storytelling, such as the Inkle\u2019s 2014 steampunk narrative fiction game 80 Days, and Nyamnyam\u2019s 2019 Elizabethan comedy narrative adventure Astrologaster, sitting beside intimate personal narratives such as c ya laterrrr, an autobiographical hypertext account of the loss of author Dan Hett\u2019s brother in the 2017 Manchester Arena terrorist attack. Despite the modest size of the exhibition room, the curators (Giulia Carla Rossi, Ian Cooke, and Stella Wisdom) have selected a wide range of pieces spanning genres, topics and emotions, made with a variety of digital tools. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Digital Storytelling, its new exhibition, shows how interactive technology has changed \u2013 and expanded \u2013 the way we tell stories When you walk into the British Library, the first thing you\u2019ll see \u2013 apart from people sitting in every available free space, writing on laptops or in notebooks \u2013 is a glass tower encasing rows …<\/p>\n

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