Storyspace reader2/20/2023 ![]() ![]() I had never seen a Storyspace project successfully interface with HTML to form a combined narrative as I envisioned. Linking these two environments together was the most challenging aspect of the project. There is, however, a sitemap linked to from each document that lists all the HTML documents divided by narrating character, just in case the reader wants to make sure he/she has read every page. The HTML documents link hypertextually to one another, in much the same way that topical links in the Storyspace work, but there is no sense of linearity through the documents this is because I wanted the HTML world to seem less grounded. I wanted to design this portion of The Room so that it appears like it could stand alone as its own hypertext project, but in fact relies on the Storyspace narrative for its content. The second environment I chose was HTML, creating a series of documents accessible from the World Wide Web. A third option for the reader would be to simply view the map that appears upon opening the Storyspace document and choose a random lexia based on its title or position in the floorplan of the room. I think the main advantage of writing in hypertext is the ability to give the reader options, which I did by providing both a semi-linear path through the lexias (by clicking the background of each one, which traces the outline of the room on the map) and also providing in-line topical links to somehow-related documents. I set up the Storyspace lexias to look like the floorplan of my room, and wrote many lexias in a blog-like style, but linked them together hypertextually. ![]() The main environment I used was Storyspace, which enabled me to arrange the framework of events in an interesting way. My goal for the general structure of The Room was to have two separate navigable environments that both depicted actual events that had occurred in my room, but in different ways, interacting with each other to form one conglomerate narrative. Hence, I attempted to do certain things I had not yet seen in a hypertext narrative, and other things I had not yet seen in a creative nonfiction piece. ![]()
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