The online StoryTelling Game and Journal that uses story,
life skills and DIY projects to bring your best stories to real life.
Whyville
and Numedeon are
collaborating with a wonderful small children’s independent book store on a
project to allow kids to become their own Harry Potter.
Specifically, today’s market for books written
for children ages 8 to 14 is dominated by fantasy-based hero journeys. Aware of
this focus, the Tree House Book Store, a small independent book store in
Ashland Oregon, decided three years ago to launch The Secret Book Club, where children use StoryJournaling techniques
to compose their own creative stories with themselves as the action
superhero.
In collaboration with the folks at Tree House, Numedeon
wants to bring this StoryJournaling project to Whyville where potentially many
thousands of children world-wide can be engaged in writing and sharing their
own hero journeys.
They have just kicked-off a Kickstarter
campaign to raise the money needed to complete the online platform.
This includes:
1. The
Secret Book - The StoryJournaling software at the heart of The Secret Book Club has been
prototyped and now they need the funds to build and scale it to meet the needs
of their storytellers.
2. The Secret Artifacts - The apps that
make StoryJournaling a fun and immersive game. Collectible Story Clues, Thought
Bubbles, Magic Mirrors, Time Traveling Telescopes are some of their virtual
gear for storytellers. Each app gives players the tools they need to more fully
inhabit the monthly StoryGame.
3. Technology and The League of Extraordinary
Developers - Behind the curtain The Secret Book Club is a feat of technical
wizardry. It requires dedicated practice of engineering magic from their League
of Extraordinary Developers.
The developers have been hosting The Secret Book Club inside of Tree House
Book Store as a labor of love for over three years now. That’s how much they
believe in this project. They have set their target goal just high enough to
cover the software development for the 2016 beta test.
If you want to know more, or would like to help
support the project, please visit: