Interactive Fiction: Choose your own adventure

The Writing Squad

A practical crash-course on interactive fiction, for those curious about writing and creating their own interactive and experimental stories

Manchester Central Library

We'll take a look at the many ways in which interactive stories exist, with a dive into examples from the games space, print, and new media. We’ll look at ideas and structures that make interactive fiction such a unique way to tell stories, and then roll up our sleeves and get stuck into a number of easy free tools to create our own works.Although this is a primarily a hands-on workshop, the discussion will focus on what makes interactive storytelling really tick, what sets it apart from linear fiction, and where the overlaps are. This workshop is a space for experimentation. You will come away from this workshop with new insights and understanding of a writing form you're perhaps unfamiliar with, as well as some useful practical skills for creating your own work. You'll also be given a cohesive spring-board into more learning and work through comprehensive hand-outs at the end of the workshop. Bring a laptop of some kind, or anything that connects to Wifi and has a web browser! We can also provide machines if need be. Nothing else needed. Dan Hett, is a BAFTA winning digital artist and writer based in Stockport. Hett has worked extensively in digital and interactive media for the last fifteen years, including work for the likes of the BBC, Tate, and GCHQ. His most recent project, Closed Hands, was a novel-length work of interactive fiction exploring extremism and radicalisation in the UK, which was nominated for Excellence In Narrative at this year’s Independent Games Festival awards in San Franscisco. Note: This workshop is only open to members of the Writing Squad. It is not open to the general public.

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