You Can Play a Choose Your Own Adventure Story Over Twitter
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You should probably be asleep. I’ve created a “Choose You Own Adventure” on Twitter. Start here ➡ @wnd_go Pleasant dreams.
— Terence Eden (@edent) January 12, 2015
Wanna be chased by terrifying unnamed specters all over Twitter until you die in a myriad of horrifying ways? Are you also perhaps a fan of the eldritch horror aesthetic? Now there’s a simple, surreal little time-waster that is sure to delight you. Or give you nightmares. Probably both, we expect.
They’re here. Oh god! They’ve found you! Run: @wnd_run Hide: @wnd_hide
— A dreadful start (@wnd_go) January 11, 2015
Called “A Dreadful Start”, this Choose Your Own Adventure game was dreamed up by developer Terence Eden and presented to the public a few days ago. While it’s not the first CHOYA to ever appear on Twitter, its execution is pretty ingenious—each path of the story is told over a separate Twitter account, as a way to save precious tweet characters and ensure that the redirect links work on any platform.
In his notes, Eden also points out that because Twitter has a limit on the amount of accounts you can register through a single IP address, he ended up recycling old Twitter accounts from jokes and deserted projects, so some of the paths have eerie traces of what they once used to be:
The game is also meant to be a “viral teaser trailer” for The Wanderer by Timothy J. Jarvis, which is about a fictional horror writer who may or may not be an immortal time-traveller doomed to walk the Earth alone. So, you know, in case being chased around Twitter wasn’t enough for you, there’s also that to throw on your reading list.
Eden plans to update the game with more story points if he can figure out how to land himself more accounts. In the meantime, if Eden ever wants to work on a sequel to his Twitter masterpiece, then I have a great pitch for a more frivolous plotline:
(via Yahoo)
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