Please have a look at the new user interface, the improved functionality and use the forum to communicate with other members.

Please feel free to encourage your colleagues and friends to register for the Open Community so they can try out INSCAPE as well.

Keep an eye on the online user section (www.inscapers.com/oc/) as this will be the place where we publish additional material.

Hi Inscapers!
I want to share with you our first steps using the software. As you know, at the moment we’re working on the project Inscape-AAC and the first aim is to use photo and video to bring Luca’s word (places,activities, persons) in a small device. I do not deny some difficulties using Lua scripts, and I hope final version of Inscape will find the way to create some more confortable way to work on it.
By the way, we also need to reflect on another problem that interests the hardware stuff. Because of his disability, Luca will be able to enjoy the story we are preparing for him only if we can let him play it using a touch screen as interactive device.

Is there anyone of you that could help us in this regard? Have you ever tried to use a touchscreen for storytelling?

I’m waiting for you answer.

Francesco

Hello Inscapers,
I’m writing to let you know that our centre of neuropsychology, cognitive and language rehabilitation (Sinapsy., placed in Rome) choose Inscape Beta Version as an instrument to develop a special project. The aim is to provide one of our patient of a tool for his communication needs. The boy is eighteen years old and lives in Rome; since he was a child has been followed by our centre because of his multiple disabilities (severe mental retardation, motor coordination disorder, absence of speech, dehambulation difficulties). Actually he uses a naturalistic sign language and many different tools for his communication needs.The whole project follows the general guidelines of Augmentative and Alternative Communication trend, that suggest a variety and ecologically oriented communication instruments and techniques to reach many communication partners. Together with the family and school teacher we were looking for a more powerful instrument that could put together all the single tools and introduce us in the world of story telling, we made a google research using keywords like “storytelling, social stories” and we’ve been lead to your website. So we started to use the Beta Version of Inscape to build naturalistic stories for Luca, using videos and photo of his real environment. We choose Inscape despite of other instruments and entered in the Open Community to share with you the project. We wish to share our results inside the community and find help and ideas for the project. Did someone does something like that?
You’re welcome for suggest us new way and analyze our proposal.
By the way, I’m Luca’s psychologist

Francesco Toninelli

There will be an INSCAPE Training Course for Open Community members in Salzburg, July 4-6, 2008. During that couse participants will have the chance to get to know the INSCAPE software by developing an own INSCAPE story. Please have a look at www.summerschool.europrix.org for details.

The developed stories can be submitted right after the course to the INSCAPE OC Special Award of the EUROPRIX Multimedia Awards at www.toptalent.europrix.org.

In the Help (?) menu of INSCAPE you will find the User Manual as well as Tutorials which will help you getting acquainted with INSCAPE. There is also a LUA Script reference if you are the programmer type who wants to dig into the scripting facilities.

Still stuck?
Try having a look at our Q & A section to see if there your question is already answered. If not please feel free to contact us for an answer.

Your INSCAPE Team

Dear INSCAPERS,

Now is the time where the INSCAPE Beta software has been released.
You will find it under the Users section (top menu) in the OC Downloads section (left menu)

In order to download the software you need a page login. Sign up for the Open Community to receive the login credentials.

Your INSCAPE Team

ICNM has made effort for curricula for teaching Interactive Storytelling by holding workshops for academics. Who wants to continue this by using INSCAPE could get in contact with the EUROPRIX ACADEMIC Network (www.eadim.org).

The first Pre-Beta Assessment workshop was held by Open Community Members in Salzburg on June 1st.
We learned about the functionality of Director MX 2004 and looked at the vision of INSCAPE for authoring interactive stories.

May I invite you, participants, here to share your experiences here:
Have you continued using Director MX 2004?
Still have something in mind about INSCAPE?
What was the most surprising thing about INSCAPE?

Where do you see potential for marketing interactive stories?
How do you evaluate the potential acceptance among different user groups?
A lot of questions but essential for all of us, working with interactive narratives.
Would a store preferably place an interactive story on the shelf for films or games.
People with exact expectations on the content of these shelves will never buy the interactive story.
How can interactive stories find their way to iTV and mobile phones?
Or are they damned to exist in a corner on the internet.

What is currently the most convenient tool to produce an interactive story?

This section addresses discussions regarding available tools, usefulness, strengths and weaknesses.

We appreciate all pro and cons regarding used tools and features of tools as well as suggestions which would be required for efficiently produce interactive narratives.