If the accepted belief is that numbers have always existed, then how did letters come about? This question is posited and toyed with in stunning visual flair with the latest from Moonbot Studios LA latest Numberlys. Recently unleashed as an "interactive storytelling app" for the iPhone, Numberlys is inspired by such classic stories as Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, King Kong, Flash Gordon and even The Marx Brothers and tells the fictional tale of the birth of the alphabet. The characters go thru a number of different challenges that allow the story to develop and push the characters toward myriad outcomes.

Take a look:

Recently we’ve talked about the shifting ground of traditional narrative storytelling and how technology is possibly enhancing that experience, challenging our perception of what a dramatic arch of a narrative is defined as.

If this is the future of storytelling, it looks pretty good from where we stand.

Links to consider:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/numberlys/id491546935?mt=8