The New Field

A collaborative story attempt.

Members:

• Richard Littauer
• Simon Vansintjan
• Stephen Kyle
• Joe Cavers
• Add your name (Keep this line)

Our commits tell stories; the links we follow trace trails in the web. We are makers, and we are movers, and we are doers. We work best when we help each other. Why shouldn't we then tell stories with each other?

Some groundrules:

• All groundrules have to be agreed upon by everyone.
• All rules previously established stand for new members until they are taken down by all of the members.
• You can change anything. Use humility to know when this doesn't apply.
• If you have an idea, work it in.
• No using the wiki or pages or private notes. Bring it all to the table, here.
• Work collaboratively, share, talk, invite, spread, disseminate, take ownership.
• We are bound by nothing written down, but only by what we can build up.
• Have fun!

Let's see what we do.

Ideas

####JoeCavers

• More ideas. If we're doing this in a browser with interactivity, what about things like in a section of story where the character is seeing by candlelight, make the reader hold a cursor (or finger if touchscreen) over the words as if that's their candlelight to read by. A touchscreen version would somewhat negate Richard's ideas below involving hover-over changes. I'm down for some cool JS action with hovering. I wonder how we'd do that, though. Canvas?

• Richard, your ideas below make me instantly see interactivity, and my mind springs to sound. Interactive sound involved in some way? If you've got sounds to put in, please do it. Wind?

####RichardLitt:

• Perhaps a modular story? Where we can autogenerate storylines that would make it appear static, but are made up of chapters put together in a random way? This would require small, modular chapters, and a story line that would work - such as a travelogue (islands? Mountains?)
• Some new take on hyperlinking, perhaps? Where hovering over a link causes javascript to modify the remaining page or the storyline, instead of just static paragraphs.
• How about reducing the user footprint of hyperlinking? Could we use javascript to make over change the story before the reader's eyes? How would we do that? Hover over a certain word? Maybe over a character name to see their perspective?

####Simon:

• Some story made after the global ecopaclypse. I like it. I guess that's what fervent branch was for?

Questions

• Should we use the wiki?
• Are all the rules cool?