look here for the story

inspiration

something i’ve been interested in is rumination and memory. i’ve been trying to expel my own thoughts onto paper. so, i wanted to use inform 7 to actually go physically backwards in a memory, and try and trace the map of how this would be represented with text.

i’ve also been reading a lot about memory (cc dirk gently’s holistic detective agency by douglas adams and mcglue by ottessa moshfegh) which i would also recommend for no other reason than pleasure.

process

i started with the shape of the map i wanted first. something i’ve noticed when writing these interactive fictions is thinking about the whole story and the shape rather than the individual details.

i wanted to have something that was cyclical — the start and the end being the same.

each “room” manifested themselves as a part of the thought process. ideas manifest themselves as containers that you can go into. they change each time you enter the idea as well, as demonstrated below.

final

i ended up breaking my story into separate sections, each with their respective room. i didn’t play around too much with items but i might continue to do that later.

list of rooms: Death, Revelation, Spiraling, Thoughts, Decision, Naming, Birth

look here for the story again

resources

inform map docs inform understand docs multiple rooms inside another iterating through list inform end docs