Hypertext Narrative Project: Civic Imagination
Brief
For this project, you will create a fictional hypertext fiction with an open-source application called Twine focused on building a better future world, set in the year 2047. The main goal of this project is to create plausible, civic-minded design patterns for improving the future. A hypertext fiction is a fictional story that is read by progressing through a series of story nodes containing hypertext links, with each link leading to another node in the story. You will follow a design process that will help you generate ideas, create characters and plot, incorporate feedback, and iterate towards a final work.
Tools and materials
- Pencil/pen
- Journal
- Computer with Internet access
- Twine Desktop Application
Learning Resources
Instructor produced:
- Twine Tutorial: Getting Started
You should include the bare minimum listed in this tutorial, but if you want to produce a more advanced hypertext narrative, see the Twine Wiki for more details.
From the Twine community:
- Twine Guide: Twine Wiki
- Advanced: Interactive Fiction
- Making a game with Twine: Twine Game Tutorial
- How to add custom CSS to a Twine story (colors, fonts, layout, etc.)
Inspiration
- Fabricationist DeWit Remakes the World by Jedediah Berry
- Eidolon by A.D. Jansen
- Science Fiction Prototypes by the Threatcasting Lab — Short comics illustrating potential technological futures relvant to the military.
Previous student work
"Love to Evolution" by Symphony Howlett, 2017
Grading
This project will be graded according to a cumulative assessment of each part of the design process. More information can be found on the individual design process step.
Citation
This project has been adapted from: THINK CRITICALLY - ACT CREATIVELY: HARNESSING THE POWER OF FICTION FOR SOCIAL GOOD. Accessed on October 10, 2016. http://byanymedia.org/works/mapp/activity-1?path=activities