I Want to Tell Stories
Joran Omark is one of the leading people helping the XNA Community learn. He manages the xnatutorial.com site, a site that I used extensively during the first beta, helping me figure out how to put sprites on the screen.
One of his posts from his personal blog hits the nail on the head as to why I’m trying to learn XNA and programming for games:
“By next year, there will be an influx of total beginners, who will want to know how to tell their stories. I propose that the very best stories to come from those future beginners, will be the ones that thoroughly understand the storytelling tools they use. For this, they need help.”
So thanks to everyone involved in all these tutorials, they’re truly helpful. You’re setting the stage for us “young” storytellers.
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Thank you for calling me a leader. Sounds weird, though. I’m just playing with XNA , just like everybody else.
I have so many stories I want to tell. In the past, I’ve tried writing stories, not only short stories, but novels, screenplays, pen and paper games, and board games. For myself, mind you, I’ve published nothing.
But it has always been about the story. I made a board game about the corruption in Thailand. It had amazingly fun gameplay mechanics, but that didn’t matter. The reason I made it was to illustrate how corruption makes more corruption easier, until the game ended with a military takeover to clean up. Well, a year later, that’s exactly what happened in real life…
Or the role playing game about a post-apocalyptic world, in which the europeans recolonize the Americas, fighting with the native mutants. The game mechanics were purely in place so that I could call it a pen and paper role playing game. It was really a storytelling role playing game, because to me, the story was so much fun. I remember that New Orleans was under water after bombing the ice caps during the war, but the city was rebuilt on rafts. This was years before Katrina.
Or the fantasy book about the boy who died. He didn’t go to heaven, but to a far more interesting place…
Anyhow, the point I was trying to make with my post on my blog was that storytelling is probably a big part of the reason why we developed barins in the first place – kind of like the feathers of a peakock, we can show off that we have energy to spare by building unnecessary attributes.
We had fish and birds as energy source during the ice ages, rich in omaga fats. 60% of the barin is made of omega fats, so that’s our way of showing off. The peackock with the biggest feathers gets the girls. The guy with the guitar by the night fire gets the girls.
And since humanity hasn’t eveloved away from sex, which is good, we still tell stories.
So, what’s your story?
Cheers!
Joran
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