Final Project

Forking Pathways

Choose your own adventure

Choose Your Own Adventure is a series of children's gamebooks where each story is written from a second-person point of view, with the reader assuming the role of the protagonist and making choices that determine the main character's actions and the plot's outcome. The series was based on a concept created by Edward Packard and originally published by Constance Cappel's and R.A. Montgomery's Vermont Crossroads Press as the "Adventures of You" series, starting with Packard's Sugarcane Island in 1976. Choose Your Own Adventure was one of the most popular children's series during the 1980s and 1990s, selling over 250 million copies between 1979 and 1998.

Taking inspiration from this, i decided to make a "short" choose your adventure story where the reader will determine the plot and outcome by clicking on which choice they want to make.

Never ending stair case

Another idea i had was to create something which is never ending, first i thought of creating a puzzle in which the player decides the shape outcome as it would be based on the story the player makes. I unfortunately didn't have enough time to look into this idea.

Taking inspiration from MC Escher's Relativity, i wanted to try and make a never ending staircase or a staircase with multiple exits.

It depicts a world in which the normal laws of gravity do not apply. The architectural structure seems to be the centre of an idyllic community, with most of its inhabitants casually going about their ordinary business, such as dining. There are windows and doorways leading to park-like outdoor settings. Yet all the figures are dressed in identical attire and have featureless bulb-shaped heads. Identical characters such as these can be found in many other Escher works.

In the world of Relativity, there are actually three sources of gravity, each being orthogonal to the two others. Each inhabitant lives in one of the gravity wells, where normal physical laws apply. There are fifteen characters, spread between each gravity source. The apparent confusion of the lithograph print comes from the fact that the three gravity sources are depicted in the same space.