Games and Digital Storytelling - Once Upon a game...

Last July (aka 2009) I was happy to participate at the 7th Fairy Tales Festival, held in Kea, on «Tales of Love» , and it was enchanting! The program included fairy-tale narratives, musical-art events, art exhibitions, puppet shows, shadow theater, workshops for children and adults and the admission was free to the public.

Apart from that we got to present our educational fairygame called Magic Potion and organise a workshop for children at the beach regarding storytelling and games. But this time using the digital image as a motive for narration instead of vica versa. It seemed that the children were able to create collaboratively an entire new story based on the stills from the Magic Potion Game.
The Magic Potion was designed especially for users with mild mental disability and it is in greek. Check out our paper if you are into academia or you dont get bored easily, otherwise skip the next link:
Digital Game-Based Learning for Students with Mild Intellectual Disability: The EPINOISI Project
M.Saridaki, D.Gouscos, M.Meimaris

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Since that lovely day I keep thinking about storytelling fairytales and gaming. Where does the interactive storytelling ends and the gaming begins? educational impact and so on...
soooo today I came across a LovelyLovely fairy tale game called Gretel and Hansel (not hansel and gretel, grrls take over:-) which I'd love to share with you and I really feel that it is a very effective combination between storytelling and game.