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Deep Surface
Deep Surface is the monstrous progeny of a strange romance between a reading machine and a free-diving simulator. Literature at crush depth. Hypertext gets wet. Generically, it is yet another instrument: one of those things you can play (or play with), without playing a game. There are rules here, and procedures, and (as in Real Life) a more or less invisible scoring system; so astute players may be able to invent clever and even elegant strategies. But if you're not feeling astute, you can plunge in and have a dip, immersing yourself in what signs and symptoms may present themselves as you pass by, dreaming perhaps of meaning... till robot voices wake you, and you drown.
(Source: Author's description from Electronic Literature Collection, Volume Two)
Eric Dean Rasmussen - 20.02.2011 - 14:26
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Golpe de Gracia
Golpe de gracia is an interactive multimedia piece that combines text, illustration, audio, modeling, and animation and tells the story of a character who undergoes a "near death" experience; this particular situation also functions as a metaphor for the cultural transitions of the present moment. The text is comprised of three "narrative worlds": Cadáver exquisito, L'nea mortal and Muerte digital (Exquisite Corpse, Mortal Line, and Digital Death, respectively) and four "deepening rooms" (games, reading texts, study, and construction). The work offers several different degrees of interaction that range from taking decisions in order to follow the routes, all the way up to the collective construction of the text, along the way participating in several interactive games. Golpe de gracia also has an educative and communicative purpose, which is to make us aware of, and to contribute to, the development of collective knowledge.
Scott Rettberg - 15.04.2011 - 14:53
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Reconstructing Mayakovsky
Inspired by the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky who killed himself in 1930 at the age of thirty-six, this hybrid media novel imagines a dystopia where uncertainty and discord have been eliminated through technology. The text employs storylines derived from lowbrow genre fiction: historical fiction, science fiction, the detective novel, and film. These kitsch narratives are then destabilized by combining idiosyncratic, lyrical poetic language with machine-driven forms of communication: hyperlinks, "cut-and-paste" appropriations, repetitions, and translations (OnewOrd language is English translated into French and back again using the Babelfish program.) In having to re-synthesize a coherent narrative, the reader is obliged to recognize herself as an accomplice in the creation of stories whether these be novels, histories, news accounts, or ideologies. The text is accessed through various mechanisms: a navigable soundscape of pod casts, an archive with real-time Google image search function, a manifesto, an animation and power point video, proposals for theatrical performances, and mechanism b which presents the novel in ten randomly chosen words with their frequencies.
Scott Rettberg - 15.04.2011 - 15:38
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This Is Not A Poem
This work takes the poem "Trees" by Joyce Kilmer and, transcribing it onto a "scratchable" disk, makes it into a toy, a game, and a language engine.
(Source: Author's description)
Scott Rettberg - 20.05.2011 - 12:35
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Passage
Passage is a very short art game about life and death and the passage of time. It is intended to be played before you read anything about it, so it is recomended to play it before you read more about it.
(source: necessarygames.com)
Meri Alexandra Raita - 03.03.2012 - 19:10
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The Reading Glove
The Reading Glove is the first component of a research program called the TUNE Project (Tangible, Ubiquitous, Narrative Environment). Karen and Josh Tanenbaum describe TUNE as a story, a space, a game, and a research instrument that investigates questions of interactive narrative, player modeling, adaptivity, and tangible embodied interaction.
The Reading Glove itself has gone through several iterations. Version 1.0 consisted of a wearable RFID-enabled glove and tagged objects that allowed readers to experience an interactive narrative by picking up objects that have been augmented with story fragments. There is a video of Reading Glove 1.0 and details of the design process on our blog.
Jill Walker Rettberg - 07.04.2012 - 14:22
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Zombies, Run!
This is a narrative running app, activated when you take your smart phone for a run. Players take on the person of ‘Runner 5,’ a scavenger in the app’s post-apocalyptic setting; their running playlist is sporadically interrupted by voice-recorded messages from other survivors, leading them to nearby supplies or warning them of approaching zombie hoards – so that half-hearted runners know that it’s time to pick up the pace. Narrative fragments are embedded between songs, and timed so that a story arc of 4-5 episodes will complete every twenty minutes, and that each subsquent fragment ends with a hook so the runner-reader will want to return for more. The narrative is locative but works anywhere, providing a fictional layer on top of an actual map of your surroundings where you can collect supplies and medicines, and where you must avoid zombies. The first season consists of 24 twenty minute episodes and there are plans for a second season.
Jill Walker Rettberg - 24.04.2012 - 22:40
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Croatian Tales of Long Ago
Croatian Tales of Long Ago
Scott Rettberg - 08.01.2013 - 21:21
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Blackout
Blackout" computerspil og roman. Deadline (1997)
"Blackout" var ikke alene mit første spilmanuskript. Det var også det første spil Deadline udgav og dermed noget af det, der fik dansk multimedia til at rulle i gang. En produktion med masser af folk der for første gang prøvede kræfter med mediet, men var klar til at give hvad som helst for at få det til at lykkes. Jeg tror der forliste tre ægteskaber under den produktion, men der kom et fantastisk produkt ud af det og møder man dem der arbejdede på det er det næsten som at høre en flok gamle soldaterkammerater. Det var en temmelig vigtig begivenhed for de fleste på produktionen.
Scott Rettberg - 26.06.2013 - 13:54
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Shrapnel
Xyzzy winner, Best Use of Medium 2000
Jill Walker Rettberg - 29.06.2013 - 09:24
