If you loved the
Choose Your Own Adventure books (and dying over and over again between their pages), here’s some good news: you can play a chooseable path game right now through the magic of Twitter. The bad news: you’re going to die. A lot.
Terence Eden decided to play with interactive storytelling by buying up a bunch of Twitter accounts (Twitter has rules against registering multiple accounts from a single IP address) and set to work building a simple but creepy story in the style of those choosable path books.
You should probably be asleep.
I've created a "Choose You Own Adventure" on Twitter.
Start here ➡ @wnd_go
Pleasant dreams.
— Terence Eden is on Mastodon (@edent) January 12, 2015
While Eden is the first to admit that he didn’t invent the concept of the Twitter chooseable-path game, what he does with the format is pretty cool. He uses the account names, descriptions, header images, and avatars to help enhance the game’s mood.
Give it a go and see all the myriad ways you can die:
They’re here. Oh god! They’ve found you!
Run: @wnd_run
Hide: @wnd_hide— A dreadful start (@wnd_go) January 11, 2015
You can also read
how Eden executed the project on his blog, just in case you want to write a murder-filled Twitter story of your own.
[via FastCo Design]
