“Timeline is the story of your life…a new way to express who you are.” –Mark Zuckerberg Since we spoke of Facebook today in class it sparked me to look into more about the “dreaded” Timeline. Considering that everyone I know is anti-timeline I thought I would look at both perspectives and pinpoint the main arguments of each. I am in…
Author: richmond
LostPig and Grunk
I became interested in the interactive fictions we had been playing (such as Shade) and wanted to research more possibly games to play. Specifically I wanted to blog about one, rather than a digital poem or electronic literature story, which I have mainly done in the past. I came across LostPig after searching for interactive fiction games in Google. My…
Entre ville
The fun layout attracted me to this piece of Electronic Literature which I found on the umwblogs website. Entre ville, by J.R. Carpenter is a highly interactive piece of digital poetry- it also contains movie clips, photographs and drawings. They are typed and doodled on an electronic piece of notebook paper. I clicked on a pair of garden gloves- a…
CRASH
I chose to taake the approach of digitail poetry. I used SCRATCH because this seemed the most fitting and easiest for me to understand and titeled my work CRASH. I found the truck clipart from google images. I wrote the poem myself about my sister and I. This poem is a true story that happened to us. I had fun…
Fitting The Pattern
Fitting the Pattern by Christine Wilks “Fitting the Pattern, or being a dressmakers daughter, a memoir in pieces”, Wilks titles her (highly) interactive fiction. You pick up the tools: scissors, a sewing machine, pins and a thread cutter. A hand points you in the direction in which to drag your tool, red lettering similar to stanzas of a poem appear…
Separation
“Separation” by Annie Abrahams I saw someones reaction to this piece of electronic literature earlier this semester, and found myself wanting to read it myself. I am very curious of the body and minds functions with the computer, as I know I am constantly hunching and working over one. As if the computer has feelings itself, I’ve never thought of…
Text Adventure
I found the interactive fiction novel ‘Colossal Cave Adventure’ to be very interesting but rather frustrating. I have never read a ‘novel’ like this or played an interactive fiction game. The input output reminded me of Computer Science 101 which I took my freshmen year. Similarly, there were certain words, which you needed to input in order to have certain…