

But there's also the option to simply work on your own projects, and that's where, … More The whole premise is extremely simple you're given the task of helping Orly create 4 different stories, each with a different theme and each needing artwork and text.

In fact, I almost hesitate to even call Orly a "game", because it's more along the lines of something like a tool, like Photoshop, but much more fun and involved. Despite, sadly, not being a small Jamaican girl, I was still able to connect to the characters within the game, but especially the creativity Orly seemed to have and the overall concept of the game itself. So by that measure, it should come as absolutely no surprise to anyone that applications like Kidpix were high up on my list when I first started using a computer, but none of that stuff ever came remotely close to holding a candle to the all time greatest story making program I can recall, Orly's Draw-A-Story.īundled together with a handful of other games, given to me by the very same woman who bought me my first PC - who I mentioned in a previous article - Orly's was the one that stood out the most. Telling stories is the only thing I can do, hence why it became my lifes work. I have been writing and drawing and telling stories for as long as I can remember.Įver since I was a wee little lass, I was writing stories in spiral bound notebooks, stapling together my own comic books and could memorize and recite entire films by heart. This is the fourth part of a series I'll be doing on games played during my childhood.
