Coliloquy Launches Dynamic Interactive Fiction E-book App

Coliloquy, a digital publisher of interactive fiction, just launched its app for Kindle with four novels this week, and since it's a new platform for online, user-collaborated content, I thought it worth noting here. A friend is working on the launch (thus I have some bias), so I got a sneak preview of the app a few weeks ago, and came away impressed. The basic idea, as I see it, is to create a new form of storytelling for the digital age that is more in line with how we tell and share stories online. A Coliloquy story can be adjusted dynamically from episode to episode, based on reader response, and the choices individual reader make within the story itself. (It has a "choose your path" feature akin to adventure games, among many other cool narrative tools.) I spend a lot of time thinking about the future of books and stories, and my guess is Coliloquy or something like it will be part of that next generation. Explore more here.

Comments

[Ciaran Laval]

Well the concept is far from new, but yes it's a good way to go and I'd like to see more of this, it's feasible to do this sort of thing in Second Life but when I looked at it, it was also going to be a painful experience.