{"id":22998,"date":"2014-04-08T14:42:13","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T18:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=22998"},"modified":"2014-04-08T14:42:33","modified_gmt":"2014-04-08T18:42:33","slug":"the-storium-kickstarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2014\/04\/08\/the-storium-kickstarter\/","title":{"rendered":"The Storium Kickstarter"},"content":{"rendered":"

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And like that — *snaps fingers* — the Storium Kickstarter is live<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Wait<\/em>, you’re saying, just what the hell is Storium again<\/em>?<\/p>\n

Storium, by Protagonist Labs, aims to circle back to the old way of telling stories — collaboratively, around a campfire. Except this campire? It’s digital. This is old-school storytelling given a 21st century upgrade. It’s a storyworld you can play in. A novel you can live inside. All shot through with a tasty rush of RPG DNA.<\/p>\n

I’ve been privy to Storium’s ASCENDANCY TO THE THRONE — ahem, I mean, “creative inception” — since close to the beginning. Stephen approached me in a Shanghai opium den — ahem, I mean, “at a writing convention in Los Angeles” — and told me what he was trying to do and I got super-geeked about it because it’s totally my wheelhouse. Collaborative story-driven gameplay? With a transmedia bent? Amazing. I was in then, and I’m in now — as an advisor, as a matter of fact.<\/p>\n

And I’m not alone. Storium has gathered a flock of fine, feathered creators, and all the other creative advisors are not just storytellers I respect, but actual friends who I trust implicitly. Uh, hello, Mur Lafferty? Will Hindmarch? J.C. Hutchins? Plus, the campaign launches with a bevy of amazing authors and game designers attached.<\/p>\n

Thing is, Storium isn’t just a concept on some whiteboard. It’s playable. Like, mmm,\u00a0now<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Back this project, you won’t wait two years to jump in.<\/p>\n

People are already playing.<\/p>\n

They’re already telling stories.<\/p>\n

And sharing characters.<\/p>\n

And engaging in imaginative worlds.<\/p>\n

Storium is equal parts platform, marketplace, and DIGITAL MESSIAH.<\/p>\n

Okay, maybe not so much that last part.<\/p>\n

But you want a new way to engage with stories? And to tell your own?<\/p>\n

Consider backing, wontcha<\/strong><\/span><\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And like that — *snaps fingers* — the Storium Kickstarter is live. Wait, you’re saying, just what the hell is Storium again? Storium, by Protagonist Labs, aims to circle back to the old way of telling stories — collaboratively, around a campfire. Except this campire? It’s digital. This is old-school storytelling given a 21st century […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22998","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-theramble","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-5YW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22998"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23002,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22998\/revisions\/23002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}