On this page, I’m including links to a wide range of resources on storytelling. These resources include: general resources, interactive documentaries that I’ve experienced and/or analyzed in the past year, theories on storytelling that influence by work, and much more.
General Resources
- i-docs
- Interactive Doc Archive
- Should Filmmakers Learn to Code?
- Open Documentary Lab at MIT
- IDFA Doc Lab
- National Film Board of Canada
- CollabDocs
- Docubase
- The Distinction Between Linear and Interactive Docs
- MIT’s Moments of Innovation
- The UX Series
- COME/IN/DOC
Developer Resources
- Using SoundCloud API
- Google Maps
- RPG Maker
- How to Learn Board Game Design and Development
- Creating Games with Unity
- Stencyl
- Pickle
Inspirations for this Project
- Jess and Russ
- Reframing Mexico
- Hollow
- Welcome to Pine Point
- Snow Fall
- Black Gold Boom
- Reinvention Stories
- Unspeak
- Highrise
- Flawed
- Clouds over Cuba
- Question Bridge
- Lost and Found
- Powering a Nation
- Belly of the Beast
- Immigrant Nation
- Healing Histories
- The Last Hunt
- Similkameen Crossroads
- Planet Takeout
- The Most Northern Place
Inspirations/Resources by Category
Embedded Maps/Marking Locations
Questions
- Reinvention Stories’ Rest Stops
How-to Guides
- Planet Takeout’s Participate
- A Cowbird Project: NPR/Hollow’s Here’s How
Sound/Soundscapes
Interactive Books
Games
- Fort McMoney
- From Ellis Island to Orchard Street with Victoria Confino
- Oregon Trail
- JRT 125
- Reaching Finality
- The Family Farmer
Storytelling Theories
- Dorothy Allison’s Two or Three Things I Know For Sure
- Trinh T. Minh-ha’s “Grandma’s Stories” from Woman, Native, Other
- Ursula K. Le Guin. What Makes a Story
Storytelling Manifestos
- Web Doc Manifesto by Zeega Vanguard
- Things We Did That People Like That Might Benefit You by the Goggles
- Manifesto: A Draft by Sara L. Puotinen