Category: Electronic Literature
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Introducing the Gutenberg Interactive Fiction Engine
I’ve been prototyping an interactive fiction engine that would allow users to create “choose your own adventure” styles of content in WordPress. Here’s a demo, which you can find live at the following link if you’d like to play along: In addition, here’s a walkthrough of how this works inside of the Gutenberg editor: This is just in early…
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DEMO: Introducing the Gutenberg Interactive Fiction Engine
I’ve been working on creating support for interactive fiction in WordPress — here then is a first test of the Gutenberg Interactive Fiction Engine. Note: The story has not been developed and is here for demonstrative purposes. You can find info on how to download and use the engine, as well as access the code,…
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Reflecting on katydids and a quick electronic literature prototype
Many years ago, one of the reasons I started exploring electronic literature was for the spontaneity of it, being able to create disparate elements and put them together into something coherent. These days, I’ve started remembering that. To advance through the piece below, swipe up or use the mouse to click and drag on desktop.…
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Embedding electronic literature into WordPress blog posts
Background So I’ve been struggling for a long time to find a way to talk about electronic literature in a way that feels authentic. The issue is that most platforms don’t allow you to embed custom HTML. So when it comes to Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, TikTok — none of those work for showcasing what I’m trying…
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An electronic literature studio
I thought today that I’d like to have an electronic literature studio. As in, a physical place with an ideal setup for creating multimedia electronic literature. My studio would have a desk for drawing, with a large drawing tablet. It would have a musical keyboard, and a synthesizer, hooked up to an audio interface. It…