How many times have you heard yourself say, “I wish I had recorded Grandpa’s stories.”

In Gamasutra's latest feature, writer and game designer Chuck Jordan addresses the debate over whether gameplay and storytelling are truly compatible. When it comes to the topic of bringing the two together, writes Jordan, "Almost of all the discussion starts with the same basic assumption, that 'video game storytelling' is the uneasy combination of two fundamentally opposing elements: story and ...

This event has become a Baltimore tradition. Seven storytellers (some local celebs, some regular Joes) get seven minutes each to tell a story on a particular theme. Three lucky audience members also get three minutes to tell their own stories.

At this taxidermy contest, the living may overshadow the dead.When the Secret Science Club’s fifth annual contest returns to the Bell House on Dec. 7, contestants better come equipped with a backstory as good as their stuffed squirrel or snake skeleton as among “Most Twisted” and “Most Peculiar...

How many times have you heard yourself say, “I wish I had recorded Grandpa’s stories.”