Collaborative Storytelling and Social Media Theater with Mote

Referenced in the Episode

• motestories.com - The home of the Mote app
• whatismote.com - Learn more about how Mote works
• MUDs - Multi-User Dungeons, a staple computer game genre of the 1980s and 1990s. Multiplayer text-based virtual worlds that allow for roleplaying and submitting text commands to act on the world and other players.
• Narrascope 2020: Building Narrative Chat - Doug's virtual talk which is mentioned multiple times for its breakdown of the mechanics of the narrative engine, for talking about narrative pipelines and "queering language," and for being a great introduction to breaking down the structure of an English language sentence
• Games Designed for Mote - Storytelling games in PDF form that can be played anywhere, in any medium, but were inspired by the text-based storytelling opportunities that Mote enables
• Isinglass on Portland Radio Project  - a theater non-profit founded by John and Doug, whose mission was to create and pilot programs to promote a healthy theater arts industry. John and a few members of the Isinglass team do interviews about their projects.
• Social Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing on Wayback Machine - Social Shakespeare was an effort to use the emerging performative space of social media as a theater stage. This ties into Doug and John's overall history using technology to tell stories together.

Where to Find Doug and John

• John's Twitter
• Doug's Twitter
• Mote Discord server

Spotlight

• Doug - Inform 7 (is now open source!)
• John - Backwards and Forwards by David Ball
• Anthony - Multiverse

Music Credit

• Afterghosts by MJ O'Neill