Podcasts about storystylus

Episode 10 features a great interview with Jean Leggett, CEO and co-founder of One More Story Games. After her husband Blair's near-death experience in 2012, the two embarked on a journey back to his childhood hometown to each pursue their life's passion which includes the company One More Story Games and their software, StoryStylus, which simplifies video game creation for storytellers to create, publish and share story-based games.  In their discussion, Mark and Jean discuss: The origin of the company One More Story Games that involves the creation of interactive narrative story games How StoryStylus is the underlying engine of One More Story Games that allows authors the ability to create a narrative-based game without needing to have technical know-how The 10 minute game that an 11 year old girl created using this software which is called “Attack of the Killer Zombie Cats” The game adaptation of the Charlaine Harris novel Shakespeare's Landlord featuring Lily Bard (part of a five-book series by the author) Julia Gibson, the voice actor for Lily Baird in the game The “smart games for smart women” and “games for word nerds” branding that One More Story Games employ, which breaks the mold for stereotypical violence of many video games How story is the central driving mission of this company Where authors who are interested in using this tool can start The “how to” YouTube videos authors can use to get started using StoryStylus Jean's recent TEDx Talk: “What 10 year olds taught us about our gaming tech startup” The experience of being hired by Microsoft to teach a group of 7 to 12 year old girls and how they each gravitated to areas that best suited their personalities and talents How important music is towards adding an atmospheric ambiance in a game What is possible when you say YES to imagination and you don't shut people down The award-winning game Danielle's Inferno created by Olivia Rivard and inspired by her story of the same name (Tied for Toronto Game Devs 2017 #1 PC Game of the Year)   After the interview, Mark talks about the inspiration he derives from a company like One More Story Games and how a great tool like StoryStylus offers new hope and opportunities for writers. He then compares the training he has been doing for a half-marathon with the writer journey and goals he has been working on and addresses ideas on how he is planning on getting both the training and the writing back on track. Links of Interest: One More Story Games StoryStylus Jean Leggett's Website Jean's Fireside Chat with Charlaine Harris Charlaine Harris's Website Spirits Untapped  

We're using the Be.Live Talk Show format, and we got off to a rough start when our first podcast attempt was halted when it crashed. This week we're talking about blank slates or Tabula Rasa since we officially started the production of the Shakespeare's Landlord game. So we've more in game art to show you, that we will not be posting anywhere else (check out the YouTube version podcast listeners). First off, our podcast is now on Stitcher, and second we're reminding our listeners that we will have Charlaine Harris herself on our podcast on July 28th. Submit any questions you want to ask her to #askcharlaine. This week we created the Shakespeare's Landlord story project in StoryStylus, so we're starting from a blank slate or a "tabula rasa". The characters, items and topics of conversation has been entered into the system and we'll be working on the locations and world building next week. There is a discussion about how StoryStylus works by building a set of story bricks, or story nouns: characters, locations, items, topics, events. Then we take those bricks and link them together using script code--the cement that links the brinks together to build a cohesive wall or game for people to play. (how that for a building metaphor?) While this looks intimidating, we've taught kids as young as 11 to make their own games at our previous summer camps. We show off our compiled map of Shakespeare using Prescott Arkansas as a model and the described layout from the books. Then we show some of the new art that will be used in creating Lily's house, which caused one of our audience members to say "I can't wait to start clicking on things!" (check out our YouTube channel to see those images) Finally, we show the complete story flow diagram for the current state of the game: this is a breakdown of all of the choices in the game and their consequences. This prints out to be a 23 page banner! Tune in to hear more about where we're at, and where we're going with our Shakespeare's Landlord game development.

In our premier podcast we meet Jean and Blair Leggett of One More Story Games. They have been married for 21 years and enjoy interrupting each other. For the past four years they have been building the StoryStylus authoring system which lets people go online and create interactive story games. Now they are adapting Charlaine Harris' novel Shakespeare's Landlord and want to bring you on the adventure of making the adventure game. They are funny, sassy and have some interesting stories to share about making games. Listen along and prove us wrong.

One More Story Games is a digital publisher of interactive story games, helping storytellers create living breathing worlds using StoryStylus software. Explore Story Worlds – we’ve got story games set in the past, present and future… in ordinary, extraordinary and fantastical realms. With story games written by emerging and established storytellers, you’ll find story games for everyone: mysteries, cyberpunk, thrillers, horror, romance and more. https://onemorestorygames.com https://twitter.com/1MoreStoryGames https://twitter.com/StoryStylus https://www.facebook.com/OneMoreStoryGames/ Theme music created by Brett Miller http://www.brettmillermusic.net/

  Jean Leggett is the co-founder and CEO of One More Story Games. Together with her husband Blair Leggett, they have developed StoryStylus, a simplified authoring platform for amateur to professional writers to create, publish and market narrative-based video games. In 2016, she was awarded “Young Entrepreneur of the Year” and two of their published games took top honours for Game of the Year. Jean credits her years as a stand-up comedian as essential to bringing levity to the stressful world of startup life.   Summary:   Jean tells Dana about leaving her coaching business to work with her husband on One More Story Games. Jean also talks about her love of the hustle, and what it means to her to be hustling. Jean discusses what it's like to work and live with her spouse, and the challenges she's faced as well as what she's learning from the experience. She gets into gratitude and opportunities, and how people are missing the point. Jean tells Dana about how she got a contract with a New York Times best seller for her video game. Dana and Jean talk about the value in doing your inner work. Jean talks about her investors, lemonade, unicorns and “balls to the wall” attitudes.   Quotes:   “If you don't love what you're doing, you can't attract the people that you're supposed to attract” “The alternative is that we go back to jobs we don't like” “We all have grace, we don't necessarily know it until we need to access it” “What else is possible? What is meant to be here?” “I'm always Stunned by the number of people who are blind to the opportunities right in front of them.” “You'll get nothing if you ask for nothing”   Links: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/jeanleggett www.onemorestorygames.com www.storystylus.com     See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Are you a creative individual who loves video games and has a story to tell? Well, you're definitely going to want to listen to this interview featuring Jean Leggett of One More Story Games. As a games publisher on the rise, One More Story Games is the creator of StoryStylus - an intuitive text and visual-based games-developing engine. In addition to having already released several titles using the StoryStylus software, it's recently been announced that this bold new company has partnered with #1 New York Times Best Selling Author Charlaine Harris to being her Shakespear's Landlord book series to gamers everywhere!

There has never been more opportunities for writers and storytellers than ever in the history of publishing, and Episode 52 of the Kobo Writing Life Podcast demonstrates yet another amazing opportunity that exists for writers. KWL Director Mark Lefebvre interviews Jean Leggett co-founder of One More Story Games, a company from Barrie, Ontario that has developed a storytelling platform with a team of gamers, geeks, storytellers and programmers that creates a community for collaborative story game opportunities. In the interview, Mark and Jean discuss: Jean's background as a recovering Haiku addict and recovering stand-up comedian How Jean's love of storytelling combined with her husband's similar love and a computer science background and background working in the games industry led to the formation of One More Story Games The underlying concept of bringing more reading into the game space How the experience of these games is similar to the “Choose Your Own Adventure” branching narrative experiences StoryStylus – the story creation platform that helps creators break down the elements of story (such as people, places, things, relationships, conversation and dialogue, etc) that publishes to an interactive games marketplace The fact that you don't need to be a programmer to be part of creating an interactive story game and how virtually any writer could participate in this process. (With a reminder that “Beta” means “patient, early adopters”) A writer, photographer and graphic designer in Tillsonburg, Ontario (Dan Wilkins) who is writing an 8 part series for One More Story Games and involving real people, such as the town's mayor as characters in the story    The manner by which a platform like this seems ideal for mystery stories, but the manner by which science fiction and adventure stories have already been built for it The exciting announcement that One More Story Games will be working with New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris (author of the Sookie Stackhouse - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sookie_Stackhouse - novels which have been adapted into the True Blue television series) to adapt her novel Shakespeare's Landlord How the Charlaine Harris project will include a “behind the scenes” look at breaking the book itself into various plot points and how it was developed into the interactive storytelling experience (https://onemorestorygames.com/2016/02/16/lily-bard-online/) The idea of making smarter more casual games available to the growing demographic of women consumers in their mid 30's who are interested in and playing these types of games The concept of how a game like this demonstrates the progression of writer to narrative designer for a storyteller Recommendations on how authors who are interested in exploring these opportunities might get started     Links of Interest: One More Story Games One More Story Games on Twitter One More Story Games on Facebook Story Stylus FAQ Charlaine Harris Website   YouTube Tutorial Videos from One More Story Games

Wow! We've done 10 developers chats! Blair is feeling better, but Jean is still under the weather. We start off talking about Jodie Whittaker taking on the role of the 13th Doctor Who. Then we're only one week away from our #AskCharlaine episode where we will have Charlaine Harris herself to answer questions about Lily Bard, True Blood, and her new NBC series Midnight Texas. Speaking of which, next week is the network premiere of Midnight and we talk about all of the San Diego Comicon events that have been occurring throughout the week. Charlaine has been doing so many interviews about the new series. You can explore Midnight Texas, meet Charlaine, and even meet the cast. We're getting ready to watch on Monday night and perhaps even live tweet during the event. The character from our Lily Bard series is present in Midnight, Bobo Winthorp and we quickly mention how Charlaine has to "let go" of her works when they get adapted into other media. So far she seems to approve of our take on Shakespeare, but we can talk more about that next week. In other news, we have brought on Kate Edwards as a new advisor to One More Story Games. She was the former head of the International Game Developer's Association, and a big believer in what we're doing with StoryStylus and story focused games. We're so happy to have her join our advisory board of Megan Gaiser (former CEO of Her Interactive), Alex Peh (Head of Mobile development at PayPal Canada), and Sean Smillie (Head of Planet Fiction Studios and ex-EA employee with Blair). For our new screenshot, we show off an interior and exterior graphic of the Shakespeare Garden Apartments. We have built the world for the first two chapters of the game. Now we are hooking up the choices and characters in those initial story beats that will form the playable demo of our game. On the technical front, Blair is nearly finished building the spellchecking component for StoryStylus so we can consistently spell Hofstettler. Please join us NEXT WEEK when we talk Shakespeare's Landlord with author Charlaine Harris!