Narratives for Interaction

Bangui l’oubliee by Triangulaire (http://www.bangui-loubliee.com/)

A 360-degree or VR experience website that transports viewers to the pediatric center in Bangui, Central African Republic.

Bangui l’oubliée is a VR film coupled with an interactive experience. It allows the viewer to discover the day-to-day operations of Action contre la Faim (ACF) in the Central African Republic, by visiting a pediatric hospital in Bangui. The Read more →

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YhDmJ7BoKs

Prince and Migrant Birds Interactive installation made by T. Matsuo in 2007.

Takahiro Matsuo’s work here is really very interesting. Bringing to life the story of the Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Viewers get to go into and be surrounded by the wonderment of that world. I read Little Prince many years back and that was a  version translated into Chinese. Read more →

Horror-themed Puzzle : Picking up clues to form a narrative

Think Mystery. Enigma. Conundrum. Along with a dark theme. Who wouldn’t love a story plot along the lines of that? Okay maybe not everyone but it’s sure to intrigue some.

Inspiration: Hotel626.com

As the name goes, the interactive horror-thriller online game is only available to ‘guests’ from 6pm to 6am. Between this timing, Read more →

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5wEuclfnN0

Manhattan version (1989), Amsterdam version (1990), Karlsruhe version (1991), Computergraphic installation by Jeffery Shaw, with Dirk Groeneveld. Collection of ZKM-Medienmuseum, Karlsruhe, Germany.

This is a very exciting work by multi-media artist Jeffery Shaw. The interface is not foreign to any user, it is simply a bicycle. Hop on and cycle through Shaw’s world in the screen before you. From the video recordings of Read more →

I shared some works of Maria Anwander in class when we were trying to give some examples of what we think can be considered “interactive narratives”. However as I was giving it off-the-cuff, it kind of made me feel like I did not give a great example. Or that it might lack some relevance.

So just to recap: One of the Read more →

http://gamejolt.com/games/beyond-perception/28833

Beyond perceptions is an indie game developed in a short period of time, similar to those that you’ll be able to find in gamejam/ 24 hour game creation events.

The premise of this game is simple, you play the role of a gallery visitor and finds a series of illusory paintings. As you stare or interact with it, you’re taken into Read more →

When brainstorming for narratives that could work potentially as a good interactive, I focus on the aspect of Interactive Narratives that intrigues me the most: The branching of the story based on player’s choices, seeing how your choices matter and how you are the determinant on the outcome.

With that I came up with two entirely different areas of Read more →

Process – Topic and Ideas For this project, I would like to work and explore on issues which I have a strong interest in. I have always been interested in cultural and heritage issues as I believe without them, we will loose out main source of self-expression and in the end our self-realisation.

Quoted from university professor John R. Welch, heritage is Read more →

Website: http://www.pierrehermenicolasbuffe.com/

The website is a interactive narrative where the users drag the arrow button down to reveal the story line. The different parts of the story is being animated as the user drags the arrow button down at the right side. There are few words and lots of illustration works involved. It also has subtle parallax scrolling involved.

The negative thing is that Read more →

Website: http://www.fiveminutes.gs/

This is a video interaction game where the person is playing as a first and third person perspective. For the person to move on from one chapter to another, he have to complete a number of mouse drawing controls to proceed on. This website enables you to choose who you want to be and experience the narrative within the game Read more →