Non-linear story and Self-aware Narrative
I am interesting in exploring a narrative that isn't linear or follows conventions. I had an idea about a character that was aware of the plot and the users goal was to lead them through and out of the livecode environment. In reality the character would be a scripted part of the story and it would have had as great an impact.User is Aware of the Narrative
I decided to keep the idea of a narrative that was aware of itself but put the user in main characters position. Giving the user as much feedback to make them aware they are in control of the story. Feedback will be any variables that are recorded in livecode. For example mouse position, buttons pressed and location in the narrative.Mapping Scenes
One of the main forms of feedback will be a map of the scenes, and narrative. I had an inital play with the idea in livecode and quickly found that to make the map scene by scene requires a lot of work. Instead I am working on code to draw it for me.Thinking about how the maps are draw lead my to the idea of mapping the position of different locations vertical and different times horizontally. The user could travel to different locations at different times.
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Cause and Effect
The idea of a map of locations and times from left to right gave me an interesting idea about cause and effect. see Causality . The idea was that changing something in one time would effect all times after.
The user could find an item in one location and use it in all the locations to the right(future).