Fostering Creativity through Games and Digital Story Telling

The main goal of this paper is to describe the development of "Over the Gate", a game based training designed to empower children´s creativity through games and digital storytelling, in addition to the outcomes of a pilot study. The paper will also focus on the theories of creativity on which the training is based (Med nick, Guilford, Torrance and some processes identified by the Gestalt Psychology), the empowerment of creativity, the existing trainings that are used in schools and the features of "Over the Gate".