CompSci//Media Arts - Starting Interactive Fiction

CompSci//Media Arts

Starting Interactive
Fiction, Day 1

Today's Goal

Learn about & plan a small
example of Interactive Fiction

Completed

Basics of p5.js
Mini-Project

Today

Start Interactive Fiction

Upcoming

Semester Project

I'm not here today, so what you upload to canvas today is a quiz grade.
Upload work even if you don't finish.

Typing Practice

Start with typing:
https://shaunwegs.github.io/2024/focs/typing/d/9-18.html

Add a screenshot of your typing practice to your slide for today.

Part Zero
What is Interactive Fiction?

Interactive fiction is a form of media where the audience (usually the reader) has some control or interactive with how the story progresses. A popular example of Interactive Fiction when I was younger was the Choose Your Own Adventure series, however, there were others.

It's not as popular now, but there still is a following, and there are a fair number of people that create digital interactive fiction now.

cyoa-preface.mp4

Part One:
On Paper

Come up with your own idea, and create your own diagram, similar to how I create mine in the video below.

cyoa-diagram-words.mp4

Use photobooth to take a picture of your diagram, include this in what you upload to Canvas today.
Add it to your slide for today too.

Part Two

On the Computer

Next, let's make a digital version.

cyoa-list-words.mp4

Add a screenshot showing your digital list to Canvas today, and to your slide.

Since I'm not here today, what you upload to canvas today is a quiz grade.
Upload work even if you don't finish.

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Starting Interactive Fiction, Day 1