As a Twitter Bot, Willy Shakes is one of the most well known. As it tweets a line from a Shakespearean play every 10 minute, it melds with each follower’s dashboard creating a unique experience for each person. To get the true affect of Willy Shakes, you have to follow it to see how it affects your timeline. I really enjoy…
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Bongcheon-Dong Ghost
Bongcheon-Dong Ghost is a Korean web comic, written and illustrated by Horang, that was shared during discussion from another student taking a different english class at UMW. It doesn’t remind me of many other pieces of electronic literature that we’ve looked at for this class, but I thought it would be interesting to share and would invite discussion.…
Let’s go for a Joyride
Joyride by Andy andCampbell and is apart of the Dreaming Method series. The first opening images are a series of photo shots showing what appears to have been a car accident. Which is a total contradiction to the title, Joyride. Unless of course the car ride was a joyful one before the accident. There is a great use of images and sound in…
Willy Shakes
One of my favorite elit themes we’ve seen time and time again is the chaos of the works. Flashing images, cluttered displays, words and sentences changing just fast enough for the eye to perceive. I’ve likened it to noise rock; you can appreciate it, but you have to have an acquired taste to really get into it. In the same…
Endemic Battle Collage
Geof Huth’s work Endemic Battle Collage is a 1985 experiment with computer animated poems- a precursor to the ones the class has seen this semester. Battle Collage consists of a few smaller poems made in the 1980s, and showed the potential of the personal computer for artists and poets alike, however, to a contemporary audience it seems inhibited by technological…
The Incomplete is Endless
The Incomplete, made by Andy Campbell is under the tab Dreaming Methods. You are presented with a closed laptop and can open it if you simply click it. The interface is that of a Windows laptop. When exploring it, I tried going through the start menu and clicked on every option but the same window popped up saying “The volume…
Inkubus. Make the right choices and you just might survive.
In the interactive digital game, Inkubus by Andy Campbell and Christine Wilks, you play as a teenage girl who was just grounded. You start off the game by chatting online with your friend, Beccy. Depending on the responses that you give her, you can earn hearts. Once your conversation is over, you happen to go into a dream-like world where you are given…
Project for Tachistoscope [Bottomless Pit]
Project for Tachistoscope [Bottomless Pit] by William Poundstone- focuses on the relationship between images and words and subliminal advertising, and especially for our purposes, the subliminal effect in works of electronic literature. The work contains a rapid narrative that is set to infinitely loop to a certain algorithm. There are not only words and images that are interchanging, but flashing lights…
Secrets
My final project was made in Twine. The interactive fiction piece is called Secrets. There are three different secrets you can explore and the user controls the decision the character needs to make at the end of each one. The goal is to choose the path that gives you the key to success. I was able to change colors for…
From Japanese to Western RPGs
RPGs were long considered by many to be best handled by Japanese developers like Square Enix, Level 5, and Game Freak. Square Enix’s Final Fantasy titles have all sold over one million copies, some of them having sold more than four million, like Final Fantasy VII which has pushed ten million copies to date. Game Freak is responsible for developing…