Category Archives: Narrative & Dynamic Systems
A Narrative is Like a Room
“A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens.” – John Updike ° ° ° °
Narrative and Dynamic Systems | Creating a MadLib
So here is my first attempt at a MadLib in about 25 years. I use to do these a lot when I was a little girl. First let me give you the list: 1) adjective 2) noun 3) last name 4) place 5) measurement 6) measurement 7) number 8) noun 9) adjective 10) noun 11) [...]
DICE 2010: “Design Outside the Box” Presentation
It get’s even better at 13:15 and then again at 17:27 DS Games – E3 2010 – Guitar Hero 5
Narrative and Dynamic Systems | Mapping | The Haunted Baby
Here’s a scan of the original, its a little clear then the photo above … … The colums of text the the right are the narrative keys that corresponds to the numbers on the map. Here they are in a clear format. Just keep clicking to enlarge.
Narrative and Dynamic Systems | Mapping | Choose Your Own Nightmare
I have The Haunted Baby all mapped out. I still want to add the key phrase and ideas to spice it up a bit, but that’ll happen later. I started with drawing it all out page by page on some butcher paper I taped to the door. I still had to be conscious of leaving [...]
Narrative in Silent Films | First ever Alice In Wonderland
The British Film Institute has released the first-ever film version of Lewis Carroll’s tale has recently been restored by the BFI National Archive from severely damaged materials. Made just 37 years after Lewis Carroll wrote his novel and eight years after the birth of cinema, the adaptation was directed by Cecil Hepworth and Percy Stow, [...]
Narrative and Dynamic Systems | Shade | Okay, Very Funny
One of our assignments was to play the online interactive fiction Shade. When a game appears to make fun of you’re typing errors … well that’s just good funny
Mouse Tracker | Beautiful Movement Maps
IOGraphica Formerly known as MousePath it was made by Moscow designer Anatoly Zenkov to brighten up the routine work. Posting it at Flickr caused informal interest and afterward Anatoly Zenkov and his colleague Andrey Shipilovdecided to evolve the app. IOGraph — is an application that turns mouse movements into a modern art. The idea is that you just run it and do your usual day stuff at the computer. Go back to IOGraph after a while and [...]
Narrative and Dynamic Systems | Mapping | Choose Your Own Nightmare
Interactive Narrative | I’m Mapping the Narrative Tree for …. Haunted Baby! It’s summer…and you’ve agreed to baby-sit Mr. and Mrs. Harper’s little girl, Katie, three days a week. You’ve never baby-sat before, but they have offered you $7.50 an hour–an offer you can’t refuse. All your friends are jealous. Baby-sitting a two-year-old should be [...]
Narrative and Dynamic Systems | Final | Heavy Rain Review