Want to make an episode of a TV show (or other non-interactive canon) playable? Want to explore the story from a minor character's perspective? Then this is the jam for you!
Discord: https://discord.gg/2rMGEBT6gh
RULES
1. Entries must significantly transform the source material. You must add new expression, meaning, and message, rather than simply presenting canon in a different format. Transformation may occur at the level of story, structure, form, and/or reader experience.
What counts as transformative for this challenge?
- Introduces reader/player agency that affects how the story unfolds, is understood, or is framed
- Reinterprets canon through a new narrative voice, point of view, or constraint
- Uses interactive structure (branching paths, parser input, looping, hidden state, variables) as part of the meaning-making process
- Explores gaps, implications, alternatives, or tensions within the source material
- Uses interaction to question, resist, complicate, or comment on canon, rather than merely reproducing it
The following are not sufficient by themselves:
- A straight-up retelling of canon events with minimal or cosmetic choices; placed into Twine, Ink, Inform, or another IF software without meaningful interaction
- Reproducing large portions of canon dialogue without reinterpretation or commentary