![]() Sparsely linked, La Farge’s new hypertext nods at Stephanie Strickland’s design and to Michael Joyce’s direct address to the reader. The first great hypertext fiction, a landmark that repays close study.Ī new hyperromance for the Web. Machine #69 recalls Ryman’s 253, and especially Bob Arellano’s Sunshine ’69 both in its embrace of arbitrary connection and its fond nostalgia for the era when cheap booze, good drugs, fast cars and hot guns seemed to offer everything worth wanting and when nothing was worth wanting very much.īy Michael Joyce. Simon Christiansen’s brilliantly clever interactive fiction.Ĭhristine Wilks’s Out of Touch is an exploration into loneliness and the fetish (and artifice) of human connectedness inherent in social media, a theme to which many of us can relate.Īndrew Plotkin’s iOS implementation of Jason Smiga’s interactive comic.īy Mark Wernham. Spectacular Twitter fiction from Jennifer Egan, impinging on the world of her novel, A Visit From The Goon Squad. Terrific new media, new and old, that we’re particularly enjoying. Still, the work shows all the polish in appearance and score that we saw in Morris Lessmore, and Moonbot is positioning itself to become the Pixar of the app store. It's possible that this was an oversight and the accent was chosen to get in pronunciation jokes (like "Z End"), but either way it was not done in good taste. It's unfortunate, especially as it describes a dystopian society that views everything with zealous efficiency and reduces its citizens to numbers. My only real complaint with the work is the choice of the German stereotyped accent for the voiceover. The puzzles might be a little difficult for children, as the interaction is not always intuitive, but it's clear that Moonbot is heading in the right direction in terms of how they combine interactivity with storytelling. Once the interactive cuts start appearing though, they are actually more numerous and more interesting than the ones in Morris Lessmore. So long, in fact that the first interactive point came just as I was thinking this was not an interactive piece at all, but a short video, and was considering the possibilities of what that meant for content delivery economic models. Sci-fi fans will appreciate homages to Metropolis and Flash Gordon. The numberlys even talk to each other in numbers, a clever audio trick that is translated by the text and voiceover. The story follows five numberlys (pronounced "number-lees") as they strive to bring letters (and by extension colors and fun in general) to a grey world that names everything with numbers. Morris Lessmore, I couldn't resist picking up their adorable follow-up, The Numberlys. After being very impressed with Moonbot's The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr.
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