The creation of stories like The Virtual Disappearance of Miriam and Underbelly are works of fiction that can only be created over the internet. The unconventional nature of the published material provides us with a level of freedom to what we can do. This form of media comes from the freedom that the tools will be able to provide to you. But the internet also makes the reverse possible. There are modes of internet publishing that intentionally limit themselves to simplicity in order to tell a greater story. While the tools are available to them, the choice to use them is purely in their hands.
Dwarf Fortress, as simple as a complex game.
For something like Dwarf Fortress succession games, this concept is priceless. In the memetic story of Boatmurdered, we have a crew of players who chronicle the stories of the events to befall the mountain bastion. The practice is simple, each player will download the save file from the previous player and play from their point while speaking from the point of view of one of their simulated dwarves. With luck, they can make it through the year and write their part of the story. The hilarity of it is the fact that without any form of control over what is done and what is written, the game spins out of control with each player creating more and more entertaining chapters. By the time we get to the final chapter, we are bewildered at how insane the campaign had gotten and how climactic it has turned out. Continue Reading
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