STORYSPACE VS TWINE OFFLINE

STORYSPACE VS TWINE OFFLINE

Sadly, neither runs reliably in contemporary browsers, so the project is offline until I can find time to rebuild it in proper HTML5. This project exists in both Flash and HTML/JavaScript versions. SC4NDA1 did give me an opportunity to experiment extensively with animated text effects in JavaScript, and with the pattern of interrupted linearity that has become my signature dish.

I read Ian's book years before attempting this piece and remembered everything he said about prose and Pong, except the part about how it shouldn't be done. 'You were doing it deliberately, of course,' he said. (And maybe he's right.) An astute Australian grad student pointed this out to me when I showed SC4NDA1 there. It turns out this is, according to Ian Bogost in Persuasive Games, the stupidest way to think about the intersection of prose and games. Having recently been teaching basic 2-D animation with JavaScript to a bunch of bemused English majors, I did what came naturally: crossed an essay with a game of Pong. SC4NDA1 in New Media ( Dichtung Digital 2011)ДЇor a while I had this piece on the scholarly side of my CV, because it was submitted to a special issue of the German publication Dichtung Digital that invited formally experimental essays. Anyway, the port from HyperTalk to JavaScript was dead simple - so much has not changed - and so we are able to experience the late eighties with all the comforts of web. that was also an occasion for storytelling. Explaining to airport security why I wanted to fly to Philadelphia with two laptops, one of them made in the Bush administration. Which I was able to do, thanks to a much-faded copy of HyperTalk Programming and a 2004 PowerBook I scored from eBay.

and Bobby Emmons invited me to a 2016 creative symposium on the Funhouse, the play was obvious: simulate the transcript of the imagined session using HyperCard.

John McDaid's multimedia hypernovel Uncle Buddy's Phantom Funhouse (Eastgate, 1995) contains the digital version of a science fiction convention program ('Spasticon '88'), including a panel called 'Sharing the Fantasy' moderated by Stuart Moulthrop. Sharing the Fantasy ( R-CADE Symposium, 2016)

Storyspace vs twine