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A groundbreaking novel that uses serialization, exploration, and collaboration to tell the story of a generation of unusual children, born without the ability to create or comprehend language, but with other surprising skills of their own.

Inkle is a site that allows people to create and share their own interactive fiction. Future Voices is a free app of the interactive fiction judged to be the best fiction published on Inkle.
Also on Inkle are some beautifully interactive retellings of stories such as Frankenstein and Around the World in 80 Days, but not all of these stories are free to download.

POSSIBILIA is an interactive love story set in the multiverse. Alex Karpovsky and Zoe Jarman star as a young couple contemplating breaking up. You witness the events from any of 16 different perspectives.

A pair of design studios teamed to create an interactive, animated clip for the song that allows fans to explore the emotional trajectory of a love story. The video, styled like a Choose Your Own Adventure book, lets viewers change the narrative.

In 1984, a young programmer begins to question reality as he adapts a dark fantasy novel into a video game. A mind-bending tale with multiple endings. This interactive Netflix film won the 2019 Emmy Award for Outstanding TV Movie.

An interactive documentary about K'gari, its history, and the sensational tales of Eliza Fraser.

An interactive documentary about an Australian woman who finds the letters of her Holocaust-survivor grandmother.

Created by Andrew Beck Grace, an independent documentary filmmaker who survived a deadly tornado, this is an innovative interactive short documentary essay that explores what happens after the storm passes, the media leaves town, and the adrenaline subsides.

In this poignant, interactive documentary, Guardian journalists trace the lifecycle of the shirt on your back via the teeming workshops of Dhaka, where labour is cheap, factories are cheaper and just going to work can be fatal.

New York Times multimedia feature by reporter John Branch about the 2012 Tunnel Creek avalanche. A six-part story interwoven with interactive graphics, animated simulations and aerial video, it became one of the most talked about online news articles.

A moving doco that follows a grizzly bear, and highlights their plight in Banff, Canada. It allows you to use your webcam, mouse, and laptop keys to move around an interactive map. A story about technology, and how it shapes our interaction with the online world.

A unique combination of interactive story, longform journalism and online game, Rebuilding Haiti is groundbreaking in its coverage of the tragic aftermath of the 2010 earthquake that devastated Haiti.

An ambitious project which questions people’s beliefs about war, this VR story places people in the middle of a face-to-face encounter between fighters belonging to opposing sides. This experience is designed to humanize those who have been viewed as the enemy for so long.

Get your headphones plugged in, and get ready to be taken on a boom and bust journey Of McDowell County, West Virginia. The sights, sounds and visual effects come at you thick and fast in this digital storytelling timeline example.

From the National Film Board of Canada, this is a digital storytelling example of how we explore and remember the past. It’s a multi-award winning story that combines film, writing and photographs. It was meant to be published as a book, but everyone agrees that the story is more powerful in digital form.

HONY now has over twenty million followers on social media, and provides a worldwide audience with daily glimpses into the lives of strangers on the streets of NYC. Over the past five years, it has also expanded to feature stories from over 20 different countries.

In 2017, over 18,000 asylum seekers were intercepted in Quebec, most of them on Roxham Road. This VR experience and installation is an immersive experience based on 32 stories.

A showcase of award winning SBS online documentaries, interactive storytelling, news data journalism and long read feature articles.
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An agency of the Government of Canada, the NFB produces and distributes documentary films, animation, web documentaries, and alternative dramas

Watch the most innovative stories—Documentary, Comedy, Sci-fi, Horror, Experimental, Animation, Inspiration, Student films, Award winners & more short films.

Netflix has quietly introduced interactive titles over the past few years but with the release of Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, the mainstream has now been exposed to Netflix’s new form of storytelling.