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Egypt: The Book of Going Forth by Day
Egypt: The Book of Going Forth by Day is a contemporary/ancient narrative of death and rebirth on the Nile. It is an account of Egypt that draws upon history, geography, hieroglyphics, legend and myth to tell a contemporary story of a woman searching for her brother that mirrors the eternal story of the ancient Egyptian spiritual journey. It explores the interface between image and text - the ways, in hypermedia, that narrative information is not only contained in the text, but also coded into graphics, sound, structure, and navigational elements. Egypt celebrates the natural materiality of both hieroglyphic writing and electronic literature. Egyptian hieroglyphic writing is inherently hypertextual and hypermedial. In ancient times, the surfaces of temples, coffins, and tombs were covered with a narrative writing/art that was a complex linkage of the literal, metaphorical, and schematic aspects of the central spiritual ideas of the culture.
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Scott Rettberg - 30.05.2011 - 14:25
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Earthbound: Surfing the Apocalypse
A transmedial project centered around a novel originally published chapter by chapter on a blog, and later published as a Kindle book for sale on Amazon. A number of other elements make part of the story, including a CD soundtrack, an unmarked vinyl album, art installations in galleries and a series of stickers implemented in London.
Jill Walker Rettberg - 02.12.2011 - 11:38
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Gabriella infinita
Gabriella Infinita es una obra metamórfica. Su presencia corre paralela a una intensa y a la vez voluble experiencia de escritura. Nace como toda obra artística: por gracia de una necesidad expresiva muy intima. Pero, apenas brota, empieza a buscar alocadamente su forma, como ávida de cuerpo, como presintiendo su fragilidad y su contingencia. Y termina comprendiendo que estaba destinada a la volatilidad.
Pero esa conciencia siempre estuvo lejos de ser alcanzada fácilmente. Sufrió al comienzo, en su primera fase de formalización, la negligencia majadera de sus lectores; después, la terquedad imposible de su autor que le impidió mutar con libertad. Finalmente, hubo de someterse a la desintegración de sus elementos. Ahora, en su tercera metamorfosis, espera nerviosa, como una quinceañera asustada en su primera cita a ciegas, el encuentro con su lector.
(Source: description from Gabriella Infinita, "historia"
)Sandra Hurtado - 07.12.2011 - 18:21
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Queerskins
Partly based on Szilak's experiences as an HIV physician, Queerskins tells the story of Sebastian, a young gay physician from a rural Missouri Catholic family who dies at the beginning of the epidemic. Queerskins harnesses the odd intimacies afforded by the Internet (collaborations formed via Craig's List and access to strangers' personal images and videos from the Creative Commons) to explore the human urge for transcendence via love, religious faith, sexual ecstasy, storytelling, and technology itself. The interface consists of layers of sound (two hours of audio monologues from five characters), diaristic text (40,000 words), and more than a hundred banal, quotidian photos curated from Flickr Creative Commons and videos (downloaded from YouTube and the Internet Archive) as well as ephemeral Flip videos of life in L.A. (commissioned from Iris Prize nominated filmmaker Jarrah Gurrie) that users can navigate at random or experience as a series of multimedia collages.
Scott Rettberg - 12.06.2012 - 10:09
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Blue Lacuna
Author description: Blue Lacuna is a long-form work of parser-based interactive fiction containing nearly 400,000 words of prose and natural language source code, an explorable novel telling a serious story about the nature of choice and happiness. Lacuna simplifies standard IF syntax with a unique interface: to advance the story, readers type highlighted keywords indicating objects of interest, directions to explore, or topics to pursue during conversation.
Blue Lacuna’s story revolves around a complex reactive character, the castaway Progue, who evolves over the course of the story based on the reader’s interactions with him. The climax of the story and resolution of Progue’s character arc—whether he becomes a friend, a mentor, a lover, a sycophant, or one of eight other archetypes—is dependent on how the reader treats him in up to 70 distinct scenes and conversations over the work’s ten chapters. The structure of Blue Lacuna is thus best represented not by a branching tree but a braided rope, with countless ways each reader may braid the threads of story into a personal and meaningful narrative.
Aaron Reed - 20.06.2012 - 18:59
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Die Aaleskorte der Ölig
"Die Aaleskorte der Ölig" is a combination adventure with 20 scenes by Dirk Günther and Frank Klötgen which won the Pegasus Award of DIE ZEIT, the german prize for internet literature, in 1998. It is based on a short story with only one perspective. Before the adventure starts, the reader has a chance to participate by choosing the perspective for each scene. The five protagonists are the woman Ölig, Hohmann, a group of children and an eel. Afterwards the so called "movie" starts. Every scene has a different picture and text to describe the plot which changes based on the decisions of the user in the beginning.
Scott Rettberg - 19.10.2012 - 14:17
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The Madeleine Effect
"The Madeleine Effect" is a digital story project, an artistic look at ways to incorporate a creative text based story in the linear format and language styling of a novel into the game world.
I believe that when a primarily text-based fiction story is created in a visual narrative medium, it can be utilized to prompt the user to act as a character. The user therefore may be guided to perform through a narrative. I am interested in looking at interactive fiction from the perspective of a writer aiming to invite meaningful interaction leading towards playful behaviors, or acting, on the part of the player.
"The Madeleine Effect" is a fiction story that is experienced through both digital and print media. The story interface aims to be interactive through the player's performance, which is demonstrated by inputting text into the story while playing a defined role. The interactivity in this project is focused at this time so as to more easily observe the ideas I am exploring. My hope is that this project will spur thought and conversation about ideas for increased interactivity and a more intelligent technical structure.
Scott Rettberg - 08.01.2013 - 16:16
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The Nothings
A modular novel for the net, named for the first decade of the 21st century, and designed to allow random or linear access and reader assembly.
Scott Rettberg - 17.01.2013 - 12:50
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Chi ha ucciso David Crane? (Who killed David Crane?)
You choose. "Who killed David Crane?" is a different way to read a novel, the story changes depending on the decisions you make, leading you in new and unexpected end. Not just a novel, much more than a game. [Taken from http://www.quintadicopertina.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=artic... ]
Dan Kvilhaug - 20.03.2013 - 13:36
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Verrà H.P. e avrà i tuoi occhi (H.P. will come and will have your eyes)
The novel is part of Koch Polistorie, the first proposed by Quintadicopertina fiction series, which includes interactive stories: "If the novel is a dark liquid held up well in a bottle that gives it shape, polistoria the bottle falls and spills the liquid into a labyrinth of plots, actions and links. " [Taken from http://www.libriconsigliati.it/verra-h-p-e-avra-i-tuoi-occhi-di-antonio-... ]
Dan Kvilhaug - 20.03.2013 - 13:51
