...what attracts human attention is change. ...if the temperature around you changes, if the phone rings — that gets your attention. The way in which a story begins is a starting event that creates a moment of change.
We are all engaged in two projects: living life, and telling stories about it. Our lives as lived are often chaotic, jumbled, aimless. They suggest no obvious purpose. Think of William James’s “blooming, buzzing confusion,” or what Joan Didion called “the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.” We make this chaos workable, as... See more
Whether it’s on YouTube, blogs, socials, etc., internet storytelling favors first person “I made/did/think this” over the third person “look at what these other people are making/doing/thinking” that’s common in broadcast media.
LittleBigPlanet is the game that convinced me to start gaming. This introduction perfectly sets the tone for the game, the universe, and the possibilities.