Narrative Generator in the Project

A project generates narratives when people interact with it. Make sure your narrative generator machine is as projective as possible.

• When people have different choices about how to achieve goals, new and different narratives can arise. How can you add more of these choices?
• Different conflicts lead to different narratives. How can you allow more types of conflict to arise from your project?
• When people can personalise the characters and setting, they will care more about narrative outcomes, and similar stories can start to feel very different. How can you let people personalise the story?
• Good narratives have good interest curves. Do your constraints lead to stories with good interest curves?
• A story is only good if you can tell it. To whom can you tell the story to people that will actually care?

“My shows are not narratives.”

-Brian Eno

See you on Tuesday, until then, feel free to share and comment…