I decided to check out this short piece by Alan Sondheim and Reiner Strasser called “Dawn”. It made me feel like I was living out a William Wordsworth poem. It was a very thought provoking piece despite the fact that it only lasted for a few minutes, if that. One of my class mates actually already looked at this piece…
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More of a Story Than a Game
Wow. That’s all I have to say after playing the Interactive Fiction game Shrapnel. I decided to check it out because we had talked about it in class and I wanted to learn more. I was so frustrated with the fact that I couldn’t quit the game, that I felt like there had to be more to it. After I…
Dreamhold
I thought I would look at some of the other interactive fiction stories that were on the website that “Shade” was on. I found some really cool ones. There was one where you were a sailor in an extraterrestrial planet. It was hard because you had to type in sailing instructions which lost me quickly. Anyway, I found this one…
“Masks”
My story is called “Masks”. I used Twine to create this story. It’s really two stories that converge together. One story is in poetry form and it is the present time. The reader meets a two girls that are friends. One of them is very jealous of the other one until she begins to understand that she is really the…
Understanding
I decided to look at a hypertext called “Tailspin,” by Christine Wilks (you can check it out by clicking here). I was really impressed with this form of hypertext. It starts out with a grayish background and the pattern grows as it sets up the spirals that are used to bring up each short part of the poem. Moving the…
Ergon Logos: The physical vs. the logical
If you have not played (or maybe the better word is read) Ergon Logos, you really should. Click here to check it out. This is a hypertext and by definition, the player chooses what path they take to find something else about the main character. The hypertext starts out with a black background with white writing. First words of the…
A Cultural Gem
Not really knowing where to begin because I have no experience with Electronic Literature, I explored the Electronic Literature Collection (Volume 1) provided by our professor. After looking through most of the icons and being severely confused through most of them, I found one entitled “Like Stars in a Clear Night Sky (to view it click Here)” by Sharif Ezzat.…