The Locative Media Book Launch: We Tell Stories

Penguin Books UK (in partnership with an Alternate Reality Gaming company SixtoStart ) has moved into locative media with a new digital fiction online game, We Tell Stories. Using Earth and Google Maps, some great English writers, including Toby Litt and Naomi Alderman, are reworking classic literature and “placing,” these reworked short pieces. I played it. But so far, I haven’t seen the true gaming feature, but it’s a first and it’s a great first try at creating a new product category. It is still an online game, I wish it were a truly located game…not the least of which because I’d love to “really” run around the British Museum.

Posted: March 24, 2008