Why go on a boring walk when you can be a pirate? Or survive a zombie apocalypse? Or uncover a mystery, delve into local myths, or walk in the shoes of a soldier off to war?
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How Story City Works
Will you explore Brisbane while running from a zombie apocalypse? Or how about cruising the Adelaide streets while solving a mystery? Or will you be pillaging the city looking for pirate supplies? It’s your adventure, so it’s up to you!
Story City makes you the hero of your own adventure, giving you the chance to step into a story in locations across the world. Whether it’s a real-life choose-your-adventures, puzzle trails, or historic tales each experience only opens when you’re standing in the right place via the Story City App.
Whether you’re a reader, an adventurer, a traveller, a family, a gamer or maybe even a geocacher, our stories take you to the most interesting locations around the city with adventures created by local creators who know their city best.
Getting Started
Story City stories aren’t like your everyday stories where you are a passive consumer. We want to give you stories you can see and touch, stories that allow you to interact, be a part of them, and to make choices that can change them. As you make the decisions that affect how your story ends, you also travel a unique path through the city you’re exploring.
When the app detects you are in the right location it unlocks the next part of the story. Each story happens in the location that you are standing.
We’re redefining stories so that they are something you are a part of, rather than something you are told.
And we want to support the local storytellers you know, to do it.
Meet Our Team
Emily Craven
CEO, Co-Founder
Emily is a publishing-turned-tech wizard with a flair for interactive adventures. She’s produced 100+ immersive stories, authored 6 books, has spoken internationally on placemaking and transmedia and once upon a time collected a degree in astrophysics. When she’s not designing city-wide quests, she’s belting show tunes or inventing new ways to immerse you in your favourite stories.
Brett Ludwig
CTO, Co-Founder
Brett is Story City’s CTO and resident code conjurer. He’s a former Bioware dev (Dragon Age, Mass Effect), a professional a cappella singer, and the reason our GPS-powered stories don’t teleport you into traffic. He builds magical tools, sings on cue, and solves tech nightmares before breakfast.
Tim Souza
Head of Community
Tim is a bilingual relationship-builder who’s turned startup diplomacy into an artform. From Microsoft to local murals, he weaves networks like a storyteller spins yarn. Fluent in collaboration (and Spanish), Tim helps creators and cities build magic together, one partnership at a time.
Caitlin Burns
Head of Audience Development
Caitlin is Story City’s Head of Audience Development and a veteran of IP storytelling for Disney, DC, and Warner Bros. She makes fanbases bloom. Whether launching stories at Tribeca or guiding wedding parties through digital mayhem, she turns cities into canvases and followers into fanatics.
Shae Biron
Marketing Director
Shae is Story City’s Marketing Director, known for launching Web3 campaigns that sell out in minutes. With a knack for virality and vibes, she turns strategy into spectacle. She’s your go-to for sparkly storytelling, social buzz, and go-to-market fireworks.
Justin Khan
Head of Product
Justin is Story City’s Head of Product and the design mind behind our intuitive, GPS-powered storytelling. With UX chops from Bioware and Nightdive, he made choose-your-adventure real. He turns chaos into clickable joy—one pixel at a time.
Matt Mihilewicz
Producer
Matt works for Story City as a wrangler of stories/creators. For the layman we’ll call him a ‘Producer’. When a project comes to Story City, he is working with local creatives keeping the project on track. Matt loves seeing stories come to life, and hopes you do too!
Karen Criswell
Advisory Board: Film
Karen served as VP of Operations for Dreamworks Studios (now Amblin Partners) in support of teams behind a slate of interactive games, music development deals, narrative films, and television productions that occurred during her 18-year tenure. Since leaving the studio in 2014 to start Koncept Films, she has provided production, consulting and creative work for documentary, film and emerging new media and serves on the Advisory Board for Albuquerque Film and Music Experience.
What Our Creators & Users are Saying
Eileen O’Hely
Creator
I learnt a lot about Brisbane and Australia’s history. As well as the subject matter, the style of writing is very different to my normal methods. It’s important for artists to embrace the opportunities that new technology offers us and our audience. Projects run through enterprises like Story City enable just that.
Chris H
Android User
Awesome way to see a city I use Story City mainly to explore my own city. I've only lived here for 2 years but feel like I've lived here forever with apps like this giving me a fun way to play and discover. Takes up a little bit of battery, but I just get around that by bringing a power pack. Highly recommend.
Tim Baker
Creator
Exploring the minutea of locations for story telling prompts and clues. Combining vision, sound and story to transport an audience squinting at their smartphones while navigating city streets. It is a wonderful concept and innovative use of modern technology to promote story telling. I learnt a lot from the experience and loved the collaboration.
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