Storytelling Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Meet Heckerty, well-known British children's story, makes its way to the iPad

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 23rd, 2012)

Meet Heckerty is a delightful British children's story starring Heckerty, a "zany, 409-year-old, upside-down-on-her-broomstick, green-faced witch," and her sidekick cat Zanzibar. The traditional story has made its way to the iPad with a wonderful adaptation that takes advantage of the ...

Daily iPad App: Desi Leaves Town is a surprisingly elegant puzzle game

by Mike Schramm (Feb 24th, 2012)

Desi Leaves Town, available on the App Store now, has done something remarkable. It surprised me. The colorful screenshot above might suggest that it's a kids' storybook app, but it's not. In fact, most of the kids I know would find its story boring. Instead, Desi Leaves Town is an experiment that ...

Blurb app creates multimedia stories on iPhone

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (May 1st, 2011)

Blurb is best known for self-publishing books, but a new iPhone app expands the company's scope to mobile storytelling. Blurb Mobile for iPhone and iPod touch allows you to take photos, video and audio from the iPhone, including from apps such as Instagram, Hipstamatic and Photoshop Express, ...

Choose Your Own Adventure available for iPhone as U-Ventures

by Mike Schramm (Aug 19th, 2010)

If you, like me, were a big scifi/fantasy reader at a young age, you probably remember the "Choose Your Own Adventure" series. It was a series of books in which, every chapter or so, you could make a choice that affected the story, and you were then prompted to turn to a certain page to continue the ...