Smartphones and interactive story development workshop

The aim of this half-day workshop is to showcase and make use of smartphones as a new tool for designing games; notably smartphone cameras and filmmaking apps. The expected outcome of this session is the collaborative creation of a story for a serious game that incorporates elements of role-playing and adventure. The theme and characters of the gameplay will be determined by the participants at the workshop but will deal with a current social or political issue, enabling conference attendees to propose a variety of solutions to pressing national or international matters. The take-away for game developers is a new tool to tap into the smartphone camera´s ubiquity and portability to document real life conflicts and to use this footage, or dramatizations, to construct storyboards or even fully fledged interactive movies and games.