Storyteller's Card Game

Storyteller's Card Game

Author: Mrs Wordsmith

Publisher: Mrs Wordsmith Incorporated

Published: 2020-02-25

Total Pages: 1004

ISBN-13: 1913235149

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Do you have the words to describe getting stuck in the fridge? An attention-seeking unicorn? A dangerously spicy sauce? Boost kids’ creative writing vocabulary with our hilarious new Storyteller’s Card Game! Our Storyteller's Card Game teaches kids rich, descriptive vocabulary to help them write brilliant stories. -Enjoyed by the whole family -300 word cards, hilariously illustrated by our team of Hollywood artists -200 story prompts to fire kids’ imaginations -Developed with childhood literacy experts -Guaranteed to make the whole family explode with laughter. May the best storyteller win! Playing Storyteller’s Card Game is simple: players take turns to be the Master Storyteller. The Master Storyteller takes a Words For… card and reads it aloud. The other players each pick the word card in their hand that they think best fits the scenario. The Master Storyteller decides which word card is the best - whether it's the funniest, scariest, or simply the most disgusting. Whoever put down the winning card gets to keep the story card. The first person to collect five story cards wins! What are Storytelling Words? The words in this game were chosen to help children write brilliant stories, excel at school and in life. Storyteller’s Card Game features 300 storytelling words, carefully curated into six themes - Character, Settings, Taste and Smell, Action, Emotion, and Weather. It was developed with childhood literacy experts and with word selection informed by cutting-edge machine learning.


Storyteller's Word a Day

Storyteller's Word a Day

Author: Mrs. Wordsmith

Publisher: Mrs Wordsmith Incorporated

Published: 2019-11-12

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781999610753

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Every day, flip the page and discover a new, hilariously illustrated word that will take your child's storytelling to the next level. Storyteller's Word a Day is packed with discerning data and insight on how to get the most out of every word. Set it on the breakfast table, talk about it together, tell stories, and create a daily word-learning habit that will take kids' storytelling to another planet. Hardcover with spiral binding for easy viewing by kids and parents.


Video Game Storytelling

Video Game Storytelling

Author: Evan Skolnick

Publisher: Watson-Guptill

Published: 2014-12-02

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 0385345836

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UNLOCK YOUR GAME'S NARRATIVE POTENTIAL! With increasingly sophisticated video games being consumed by an enthusiastic and expanding audience, the pressure is on game developers like never before to deliver exciting stories and engaging characters. With Video Game Storytelling, game writer and producer Evan Skolnick provides a comprehensive yet easy-to-follow guide to storytelling basics and how they can be applied at every stage of the development process—by all members of the team. This clear, concise reference pairs relevant examples from top games and other media with a breakdown of the key roles in game development, showing how a team’s shared understanding and application of core storytelling principles can deepen the player experience. Understanding story and why it matters is no longer just for writers or narrative designers. From team leadership to game design and beyond, Skolnick reveals how each member of the development team can do his or her part to help produce gripping, truly memorable narratives that will enhance gameplay and bring today’s savvy gamers back time and time again.


Storytelling for Interactive Digital Media and Video Games

Storytelling for Interactive Digital Media and Video Games

Author: Nicholas B. Zeman

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2017-04-07

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 1315354470

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The evolution of story-telling is as old as the human race; from the beginning, when our ancestors first gathered around a campfire to share wondrous tales through oral traditions, to today, with information and stories being shared through waves and filling screens with words and images. Stories have always surrounded us, and united us in ways other disciplines can't. Storytelling for Interactive Digital Media and Video Games lays out the construct of the story, and how it can be manipulated by the storyteller through sound, video, lighting, graphics, and color. This book is the perfect guide to aspiring storytellers as it illustrates the different manner of how and why stories are told, and how to make them "interactive." Storytelling features heavy game development as a method of storytelling and delivery, and how to develop compelling plots, characters, settings, and actions inside a game. The concept of digital storytelling will be explored, and how this differs from previous incarnations of mediums for stories Key Features: Explores the necessary elements of a story (setting, character, events, sequence, and perspective) and how they affect the viewer of the story Discusses media and its role in storytelling, including images, art, sound, video, and animation Explores the effect of interactivity on the story, such as contest TV, web-based storytelling, kiosks, and games Shows the different types of story themes in gaming and how they are interwoven Describes how to make games engaging and rewarding intrinsically and extrinsically


Collaborative Worldbuilding for Writers and Gamers

Collaborative Worldbuilding for Writers and Gamers

Author: Trent Hergenrader

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2018-10-18

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1350016691

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The digital technologies of the 21st century are reshaping how we experience storytelling. More than ever before, storylines from the world's most popular narratives cross from the pages of books to the movie theatre, to our television screens and in comic books series. Plots intersect and intertwine, allowing audiences many different entry points to the narratives. In this sometimes bewildering array of stories across media, one thing binds them together: their large-scale fictional world. Collaborative Worldbuilding for Writers and Gamers describes how writers can co-create vast worlds for use as common settings for their own stories. Using the worlds of Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, A Game of Thrones, and Dungeons & Dragons as models, this book guides readers through a step-by-step process of building sprawling fictional worlds complete with competing social forces that have complex histories and yet are always evolving. It also shows readers how to populate a catalog with hundreds of unique people, places, and things that grow organically from their world, which become a rich repository of story making potential. The companion website collaborativeworldbuilding.com features links to online resources, past worldbuilding projects, and an innovative card system designed to work with this book.


Mrs Wordsmith Storyteller's Word a Day, Ages 7-11 (Key Stage 2)

Mrs Wordsmith Storyteller's Word a Day, Ages 7-11 (Key Stage 2)

Author: Wordsmith

Publisher:

Published: 2021-08-26

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780241530481

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Storyteller's Word a Day is kids' daily dose of rich, descriptive vocabulary for all aspects of storytelling. See your child laugh as they learn 180 new words to describe characters' appearance, actions, and emotions. Beyond the pages, help your child retain what they've learned through our action-packed, vocabulary-boosting Word Tag video game. - 180 richly descriptive storytelling words - Vocabulary that appears on KS2 SATs, CATs, ISEB, 11+ - Designed for effective word understanding and awareness, with synonyms, word pairs, story starters and more - Research-backed and aligned to the national curriculum - Parent's Choice Gold Award Winner 2019 and an Amazon Best Seller in Schools and Education - Best used with Mrs Wordsmith's Word Tag video game, to reinforce vocabulary through play We know that one exposure to a word is simply not enough to master it. Our Storyteller's Word a Day flip book comes with a 3-month subscription to our Word Tag video game, enabling your child to revisit the words they've learned through gameplay. Flip a page. Play the game. Learn the words to create vivid, memorable story worlds! "This book is a highly informative, engaging, and fun resource to help young people (and their parents) build their knowledge and understanding of story-telling vocabulary. It helps children to develop a climate of interest and involvement with words, consequently developing not only their vocabulary but also their spelling and comprehension." Emma Madden - Headteacher, Fox Primary School. © Mrs Wordsmith 2023


The Storyteller's Guide

The Storyteller's Guide

Author: William Mooney

Publisher: august house

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9780874834826

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Guide to becoming a better storyteller, with advice from more than fifty of America's best-known storytellers, who answer questions about such issues as creating original stories, controlling stage fright, marketing and setting fees, and using storytelling in the library and classroom.


Interactive Storytelling for Video Games

Interactive Storytelling for Video Games

Author: Josiah Lebowitz

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2012-09-10

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 113612733X

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What really makes a video game story interactive? What's the best way to create an interactive story? How much control should players be given? Do they really want that control in the first place? Do they even know what they want-or are their stated desires at odds with the unconscious preferences? All of these questions and more are examined in this definitive book on interactive storytelling for video games. You'll get detailed descriptions of all major types of interactive stories, case studies of popular games (including Bioshock, Fallout 3, Final Fantasy XIII, Heavy Rain, and Metal Gear Solid), and how players interact with them, and an in-depth analysis of the results of a national survey on player storytelling preferences in games. You'll get the expert advice you need to generate compelling and original game concepts and narratives.With Interactive Storytelling for Video Games, you'll:


Blah Blah Blah Card Game

Blah Blah Blah Card Game

Author: MRS WORDSMITH

Publisher: Mrs Wordsmith Incorporated

Published: 2020-02-25

Total Pages: 648

ISBN-13: 1913235157

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Finally, a way to make practising phonics fun! Master decoding words using phonics with these three decks of increasing difficulty. Race to get rid of your cards by matching sounds and letters, and play wild cards to trip up your opponents! Blah Blah Blah is a hilariously fun card game, perfect for kids who are just starting to learn to read. Master decoding words using phonics with these three decks of increasing difficulty. Race to get rid of your cards by matching sounds and letters, and play wild cards to trip up your opponents! How does Blah Blah Blah work? Every card features a word consisting of three letters (or groups of letters). Each player takes seven cards. One card is placed face-up on the table with the rest of the deck in a pile, face-down. Players must play a card from their hand that contains at least one of the letters that are in the word on the table. The first player to get rid of all their cards wins. But beware! Wild cards hidden in the deck can force you to skip your turn or draw more cards. Blah Blah Blah was developed with a unique proprietary algorithm by our machine learning team to make sure it works. And it was tested with teachers and kids to make sure they love it! Why are phonics so important? English consists of about 44 phonemes (sound variations), but more than 170 graphemes (different written representations for these sounds). This means that English has no strict one-to-one correspondence between letters and sounds, but it’s also not entirely irregular. It involves numerous patterns and regularities. Phonics is the method that helps children become aware of these regularities, and it’s proven to be very effective.


Storyteller's Illustrated Dictionary

Storyteller's Illustrated Dictionary

Author: Mrs. Wordsmith

Publisher: Mrs Wordsmith Incorporated

Published: 2019-09-24

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781999610784

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Storyteller’s Illustrated Dictionary features over 1000 storytelling words, carefully curated into six themes - Character, Settings, Taste and Smell, Action, Emotion, and Weather. It’s packed with 1300 beautiful illustrations, laid out across 127 storytelling topics. - Winner of the 2019 Tillywig Brain Child Award - Mom’s Choice Award Winner The world's only Hollywood-illustrated dictionary is the most up-to-date and comprehensive dictionary for budding storytellers everywhere. This is the dictionary reimagined - designed to help children write brilliant stories, excel at school and in life. Developed with childhood literacy experts and with word selection informed by cutting-edge machine learning, Storyteller’s Illustrated Dictionary encourages independent learning and boosts reading and writing confidence. It’s the ultimate writer’s companion, hilariously illustrated.