#web #zombie #fiction
Now here's a thing which interests me:
Eric Teo took the experience above and turned it into a short fiction piece based on a zombie apocalypse. The effect is pretty cool: a fiction piece made of random sentences, all of which gel together perfectly. Click and read, then refresh to 'deal' a new hand, and a new story.
I find the idea of random stories fascinating - can a story be dealt at random, and still provide a compelling narrative? If so, what does this mean for the art of story structure which I have placed so much faith in?
During a Game Design class, my professor Eric Zimmerman showed us a narrative story book style game that he designed some years ago. What you have is a fixed Cover and Last page and a deck of 52 cards which contain short sentences. You shuffle the 52 cards and draw 5 and put them between the Cover and Last page and that is it. You read it from Cover to the Last page and that is your storyFrom http://www.pushurluckpodcast.com/
Eric Teo took the experience above and turned it into a short fiction piece based on a zombie apocalypse. The effect is pretty cool: a fiction piece made of random sentences, all of which gel together perfectly. Click and read, then refresh to 'deal' a new hand, and a new story.
I find the idea of random stories fascinating - can a story be dealt at random, and still provide a compelling narrative? If so, what does this mean for the art of story structure which I have placed so much faith in?
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