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1. Patchwork Girl

   Alternative Title: Patchwork girl, or, A modern monster by Mary/Shelley, & herself: a graveyard, a journal, a quilt, a story & broken accents

   Publisher's blurb:

   What if Mary Shelley's Frankenstein were true?

   What if Mary Shelley herself made the monster -- not the fictional Dr. Frankenstein?

   And what if the monster was a woman, and fell in love with Mary Shelley, and travelled to America?

   This is their story.

   (Source: Eastgate website)

   A retelling of the Frankenstein story where a female monster is completed by Mary Shelley herself.

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   Electronic Literature Directory entry:

   Alternative Title: Patchwork girl, or, A modern monster by Mary/Shelley, & herself: a graveyard, a journal, a quilt, a story & broken accents

   Shelley Jackson’s Patchwork Girl was created in Storyspace, is distributed by Eastgate Systems, Inc., and ranks among the most widely read, discussed, and taught works of early hyperfiction.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 05.01.2011 - 12:59

2. The Ballad of Sand and Harry Soot

   A hypertext ballad metaphorically exploring the relationships between people (Harry Soot) and machines (Sand).

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 23.02.2011 - 22:15

3. Ad Verbum

   Ad Verbum is a Oulipo-inspired wordplay-based game.

   Scott Rettberg - 20.05.2011 - 12:00

4. 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

5. Strange Rain

   In Erik Loyer's Strange Rain touch, sound, color, narrative and haptic play (the tilt of the device) blend into a tightly choreographed story driven by the gamer/reader's input. Alphonse the protagonist is standing out in a rainstorm contemplating his ailing sister and his role in her recovery. User touch controls the pace of raindrops falling on Alphonse and calls forth phrases of Alphonse's interior monologue. Tap the screen twice to ask Alphonse whether he's ready to go back into the house.

   (Source: Description from the Electronic Literature Exhibition catalogue)

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 05.10.2011 - 10:02

6. A Slow Year: Game Poems

   A collection of four one kilobyte games for the Atari Video Computer System, one for each season, about the experience of observing things. Neither action nor strategy, each game requires a different kind of sedate observation and methodical input. Accompanying the game are essays about the commonalities between videogames and poetry and 1,024 machined haiku—poetry generated by computer—8 bits worth for each season. (Source: Open Texture catalog description)

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 22.11.2011 - 09:46

7. Typoems

   Typoems is a series of concrete poetry.

   Meri Alexandra Raita - 28.01.2012 - 13:55

8. Vive la Bagatelle

   Vive la Bagatelle is a short, kinetic digital poem in the Italian Futurist style, featuring the song "The Airplane" by Futurist composer George Anthiel. Through deft manipulation of Flash CS4 and Actionscript much of the prose seen is randomly selected and displayed on screen. The end result is a new poem with each viewing, every bit as mesmerizing as it is curious.

   (Source: description from the Electronic Literature Exhibition catalogue)

   Note: This work was featured in the 2012 Electronic Literature Exhibition on the computer station featuring Future Writers--Electronic Literature by Undergraduates from U.S. Universities--Works on Desktop

   Meri Alexandra Raita - 30.01.2012 - 21:50

9. No Country For Old Men

   No Country For Old Men is my attempt to create an interactive reading of well-known literary text
   using a .zlorb file and can be played in Gargoyle or Spatterlight. These interactive fiction files were
   created during the Spring 2010 semester.

   (Source: Description from the Electronic Literature Exhibition catalogue)

   Note: This work was featured in the 2012 Electronic Literature Exhibition on the computer station featuring Future Writers--Electronic Literature by Undergraduates from U.S. Universities--Works on Desktop

   Meri Alexandra Raita - 03.02.2012 - 15:40