A Story Cubed: Interactive Fiction Experiment
(This is reposted from my blog, as part of my own exploration around interactive fiction.)
I saw someone in my RSS feed share a link for this beta site — Rvl — that allows you to create virtual-cube-shaped presentations, and I wondered if it might work for interactive fiction. You have to envision the project as a cube that has sides up, down and to the right when creating (although you can go left to view). It does work, somewhat, but the inability to see a master plan, or concept map, of the various slides in orbit around the virtual cube made the writing of a story quite tricky. I had to make sure the narrative folded back in on itself a number of times (and there may still be some potholes in the story as a result. Sorry.)
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Interactive Fiction Experiment: A Rvl Story Cube
Mar31 by dogtrax
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I saw someone in my RSS feed share a link for this beta site — Rvl — that allows you to create virtual-cube-shaped presentations, and I wondered if it might work for interactive fiction. You have to envision the project as a cube that has sides up, down and to the right when creating (although you can go left to view). It does work, somewhat, but the inability to see a master plan, or concept map, of the various slides in orbit around the virtual cube made the writing of a story quite tricky. I had to make sure the narrative folded back in on itself a number of times (and there may still be some potholes in the story as a result. Sorry.)
You can access the story directly here, or just click on the image above to take you to the story directly. Use your arrow keys on the keyboard to toggle around, or you can mouse-click it, too. Let me know what you think …
Peace (cubed),
Kevin
