Symbol, Icon & Index

To Do This Week

Explore these works:

• My Boyfriend Came Back from the War, by Olia Lialina (1996)
• CityFish, by J.R. Carpenter
• Forever, by Alan Bigelow

Class

Watch Video Narratives...

Hypermedia Narrative: 10% — DUE TBA

Digital stories created by and for a computer environment can include non-linear navigation, direct access to data, stored data in databases, variables, conditionals, search, interface design, random and parallel processes, hyperlinks and other forms of user interaction or “agency.”

“Hypermedia” refers to linked media. Hypermedia can be a linear or directed path of links — for example, from text, to image to video — like pages in a book. A work of hypermedia can also present a network of links — branching or open — where repetition of story elements are part of the experience of navigation.

In this assignment you will explore the possibilities of storytelling using any of the above computational processes. This is an exercise that might be the start or framework of a larger idea that can develop further as a final project.

• Your Twine project must begin with the project Title and Your Name.
• Your project must involve user choice and interaction. Please don't create a single link in each passage that proceeds in a linear sequence.
• Your Twine project may be a game, but it must also be a story that considers storytelling techniques discussed in class — character, events, plot, setting.
• If you have images or other media files, export ("Publish to File") your Twine project to a folder (the folder name should include the project title and your last name) and name your Twine HTML file index.html. The folder name and all files should be lowercase. If you do not have media, then your exported Twine file name should include your last name and the project title. Upload the folder or file to the server and link to this in a blog post. If you do not have access to the DTC server, then send me a Zip file trough Slack and I will return a url you can use in a blog post.

Twine

• Twine — download is better than using Twine online!
• Twine template (ZIP) — this is a zip containing both the simple and advanced templates discussed in the video. Just import the two HTML files into Twine and play around. Also, you can click the HTML files in this folder to test them in a browser and see the image.
• Twine template with media and (ZIP) — this template includes more advanced techniques for adding background images, sounds, music, etc.
• Example Twine: The Tiniest Room
• Harlow 3.33 — programming examples
• A Good Guide for more advanced stuff

Twine Stories for Inspiration

• With Those We Love Alive, by Porpentine
• “Even Cowgirls Bleed” by Anna Anthropy: http://scoutshonour.com/cowgirl/
• “Magical Maiden Madison” by Christine Love: http://scoutshonour.com/madison/
• “Arcadia” by Jonas Kyratzes: http://www.jonas-kyratzes.net/arcadia/arcadia.html
• “Conversations with My Mother” by Merritt Kopas: http://mkopas.net/files/conversations/conversations.html
• Howling Dogs

Hypermedia Story — DUE TBA Workshop...