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1. Nightingale's Playground

   Andy Campbell and Judi Alston’s The Nightingale’s Playground is a digital fiction work that was created with Flash in 2010. The main character is Carl Robertson, who tries to figure out what has happened to his lost high-school friend Alex Nightingale. The piece leads the reader/player through a world experienced from Carl’s perspective. It consists of four individual parts, the first section “Consensus”, an interactive point- and click game that can be played online, downloadable “Consensus II” which transports the reader into a dark 3D flat with text snippets , the “Fieldwork book” is a browser based grungy sketchbook with puzzling notes and the last part is a PDF version of the story.

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 12.02.2011 - 18:43

2. The Fall of the Site of Marsha

   In the early days of the web, Marsha cheerfully launches a home page devoted to her favorite angels and invites them to come and play. They do, and they are not friendly. The Fall of the Site of Marsha shows three states of her site, captured in Spring, Summer, and Fall, each getting progressively darker as the angels haunt the beleaguered Marsha, reveal her husband's infidelity (from clues found on the site), and drag Marsha and her home page into madness and Gothic ruin.

   (Source: Author description, Electronic Literature Collection, Vol. 1.)

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 24.02.2011 - 08:31

3. The Flat

   Inspired by the author’s own dreams and experiences, The Flat presents users/readers with a challenging mouse-controlled environment in which narrative fragments left behind by an abandoned building’s previous inhabitants still linger. Through a combination of atmospheric photography, parallax scrolling techniques, snippets of written fiction, and an evocative soundtrack, the work allows various rooms in the flat to be explored by panning around with the mouse; the transient textual narratives themselves often changing and/or progressing when the rooms are revisited. To add to the feeling of tension and urgency, and to encourage the work to be revisited, a timer ticks down in the top right hand corner of the screen before the user/reader is ejected from the narrative and shown a final, enigmatic scene: a white hooded figure in the back garden.

   Andy Campbell - 13.05.2011 - 16:13

4. Last Dream

   A mouse-responsive exploration of the final nightmarish dream of a blind old man. Contains a transient narrative and basic interactive problem solving puzzles. Created using a combination of photography and 3D animated renders. 

   Andy Campbell - 13.05.2011 - 17:06

5. Capped

   Inspired by John Christopher's The White Mountains, a children's science fiction novel, Capped is a mouse-responsive digital fiction about half-remembered childhood memories and a possible alien invasion. Created using black and white photography with embedded film clips, animations and sound. 

   Andy Campbell - 13.05.2011 - 17:12

6. Changed

   A schoolgirl who has narrowly escaped death hides and reflects beneath a roadway tunnel. Her scattered thoughts manifest against the grotty concrete walls before fading away again into nothing. Soon she realises she's been hiding herself away for days. How the hell did she end up here in the first place? Contains strong language and references to violence.

   Andy Campbell - 13.05.2011 - 17:41

7. Glimmer

   An anonymous parcel containing a small, bright orange plastic fish arrives one morning triggering a frightening, unexpected memory in the mind of the protagonist. Glimmer is a short mouse-responsive work of digital fiction that uses ambient sounds and rich-textured video effects to compliment the writing. There is a scene of a turbulent imaginary ocean in the middle of the work which was entirely rendered using 3D software.

   Andy Campbell - 19.05.2011 - 13:12

8. Clearance

   Inspired by British stone carver Billy Johnson who, in 2007, left a series of stone heads outside houses and public locations across the North of England, Clearance presents the user/reader with a series of barren, mouse-responsive landscapes and video sequences littered with renmants of narratives from an unexplained apocalyptic event. 

   Andy Campbell - 19.05.2011 - 13:26

9. Inside: A Journal of Dreams

   An elderly man keeps a surreal record of his dreams as he is slowly poisoned by his gas fire leaking carbon monoxide.

   Andy Campbell - 19.05.2011 - 21:32

10. The Diary of Anne Sykes

    A diary of chaotic thoughts, ramblings and doodles from an imaginary author trapped in a cyclic relationship, featuring bizarre, mouse-responsive and interactive/animated texts. 

    Andy Campbell - 19.05.2011 - 21:36

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