Building a Better Story World

Mar 17 2023 38 ep. 25 mins 19

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Join veteran multimedia producer/designer Steele Tyler Filipek as he helps veteran creators, newbies, and outsiders learn the process of story world creation. Using the same tools he has used for such clients as Microsoft, Sony Pictures, the Walt Disney Company, and Nickelodeon, your dear ol' professor will take you through a step-by-step process to understand the process of crafting narratives that can persist across years and thrive on multiple platforms.

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U is for Utility (That You Give to Your Fans)

Mar 17 2023 19 mins

We're onto the last vowel of fan engagement, and it's a deceptively simple one: utility, or a small bit of easily shared knowledge that you give to your audience and that they share with their friends. It's tied up in your persona or brand, however, so don't take it lightly. Let me, Bill, and Neil show you how you can give people something cool, small, and lifechanging.

O for Offer(ing Your Fans Multiple Formats)

Mar 04 2023 25 mins

When you have several offerings, your fans get to choose how they engage with you. That's the subject of this episode of Building a Better Story World: getting you to think of numerous formats, methodologies, and structures that will entice your audience to stick around your narrative world. We'll be using a popular film critique series as the case study, but rest assured that this

I is for Incentive...(er, Incentivizing Your Audience)

Feb 16 2023 19 mins

How do you get your audience to engage? You incentivize them... and that's the topic of this episode, our third entry into the vowels of fan engagement. Using a popular "sports" multimedia channel, we explore how you can give rewards to fan for engaging, whether that be in the form of a vote or something far stronger!

E is for Express(ing Your Soul)

Feb 02 2023 21 mins

Our journey through the vowels of fan engagement continues! We're serving up another dish in this episode, with the main entree being E for Express. How you express yourself is critically important in making sure you're unique AND that you have some overlap with previously successful work. Douglas Adams joins us from the great beyond (or rather, he won't, because he didn't believe

A is for Ask(ing Your Fans)

Jan 19 2023 22 mins

We're continuing on our journey through the vowels of fan engagement! In this episode, a celebrity chef and globetrotter helps us to understand how asking your audiences to do stuff--to take part, to do you a favor, to question the world--will galvanize them into action. Just ask Ben Franklin! What do I mean? Listen in!

The Vowels of Fan Engagement

Jan 05 2023 24 mins

Building a Better Story World is back! Join producer and story world architect Steele Tyler Filipek as he guides creators in five ways to pragmatically and practically engage fans on any platform. It's as simple as AEIOU. Why? You'll just have to listen in to find out!Music - icons8.com, specifically https://icons8.com/music/author/ilya-marfinAudio Effects - freesound.org

Interactive Structure Prompts and Recap

Oct 08 2021 22 mins

We've just rapped up our arc of content on interactive story structure! If you want to dive back in and redo all the prompts, this episode is for you; it covers each exercise that was covered in the last series of episodes. Going through agent, desire, obstacle, user choice, and reward, you can learn how to craft the foundations of any kind of interactive narrative. We'll be taking

Its Own Reward - Rewarding Your Audience for Engaging

Sep 23 2021 17 mins

Interactive structures need rewards, big and small, but you can't possibly give everything to everybody... can you? If you structure it right, you can! Join Steele Tyler Filipek as he guides you a process of tying the fun of your interactive experience to the rewards that will entice your audience to engage with it, time and again. Still don't believe? Then at least you get a case

Choosing User Choices

Sep 10 2021 21 mins

Agents in interactive experiences need to be able to affect the work in some manner. If not, it's not interactive! Join Steele Filipek as he showcases three ways to get users to make choices that reflect their desires, as well as a case study in social video that highlights living food and hilarity.

Obstacles, or, the Difference between Challenge and Difficulty

Aug 27 2021 18 mins

After a brief technical snafu, Building a Better Story World is back! Using professional sports as a guide, Steele Filipek--that Knight of Narrative--will help show you how to build interesting obstacles into your interactive experience... and how to mitigate difficulty... and how to differentiate between the two!