We Tell Stories is an alternate reality game launched in March 2008 by Six to Start in conjunction with Penguin publishers. Six authors have contributed stories to the project, one each week, which are displayed on the site using interactive internet media. Penguin are offering a prize of 1300 books to readers who can answer a series of questions based on the stories.
The site received nearly 50,000 unique visitors in its first week. In March 2009, at the SXSW Web Awards, We Tell Stories won the Award in the experimentation category and the overall Best of Show Award.
The six stories
Each of the six stories is inspired by a Penguin classic novel.
- Charles Cumming, The 21 Steps; based on The 39 Steps by John Buchan
- Toby Litt, Slice; based on The Haunted Dolls’ House by M R James
- Kevin Brooks, Fairy Tales; based on Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen
- Nicci French, Your Place and Mine; based on Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola
- A story written by Matt Mason and designed by Nicholas Felton; based on Hard Times by Charles Dickens
- Mohsin Hamid, the (Former) General in his Labyrinth; based on Tales from the Thousand and One Nights
References
We Tell Stories Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA