#interacive fiction wip

[kathrinesadventures]

mini update number 1

Why is it number one? Cause Imma start counting from now on >:3

Anywho, the exams went aight, hopefully I'll pass. I just calculated how much I need to write for me to reach 4K at the end of the week for "Lost in your eyes" and lo and behold.

Can someone bless this post pls?

[hydralisk98]

Blackhand devlog#3

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Social context values / indications

[WIP]

Where?: They inhabit in the forested suburb town of Masknaw, in the Shoshoni Union, on the Angora planet. It is often set in the 46th century of their calendar (eq. 21st century AD) but has moments across other points in time and space.

Who (sketches / doodles / drawings)?: Not even started just yet.

Why Interested in Characters? Depends on above.

Why Audience interested? Depends on above.

Project Why-s? Depends on above.

Audience's Why-s? Depends on above.

Toybox 'Worldview' and target audience(s)

Millenials, Zillenials & Gen Z folks, mostly young adult women & edutaining manifestation enthusiasts. (Contemporary pagans, witches, Non-Binary people, queers and neuro-diverse folks included)

The 'toybox' has a major emphasis onto variety of languages, technologies and immersion levels, to feel more like a eponymous sandbox of tools and toys a consumer / licensee can reuse to their whims* for manifesting and plain curiosity-driven stories. As such, there should be some breathing space / mysteries that are left ambiguous for most people to interpret specific content sections further than initial expectations, encouraging imagination and creative expression out of the initial material.

Probably will use a either a weak copy-left license or some other open source dual licensing model with possibility to use a fair & libre-like Creative Commons license.

Important world details

This world has a divergent yet familiar enough history backlog to stay hooked into its "fantasy" of manifestation. Mostly diverging in the early 1910s as no figure like Woodrow Wilson got elected, neither in 1912 or in 1916, leading to some delightful changes that impacted the rest of Shoshoni history in a powerful and constructive way by a full century. Not everything is butterflied away though, but many fascinating changes came, from technological progression to ideologies, going across geo-politics, economical matters and local social intrigues ensued. Like synthetic servitor sapience, nuclear weapons' race & MAD coming way later, morphological freedoms chart and a couple of cultural & technical medium changes, even down to the smart devices and musical genres to listen.

For example, the history of music and its mediums is quite intriguing as far as going from 'Blue Ambersol' Wax Cylinders to 45rpm auto-play mini-vinyl records to Laserdiscs to dual magnetic-optical media Mini-Discs, with some cassette tape storage and flash storage yet to hit in the broader community than educational and home video markets. So you can see it is quite heavily inspired by history with tweaks and touches of flavor to really spike curiosity and show how malleable reality is, even without breaking the usual bounds of historical fiction by that much.

That being said, there is abundance of sapient synthetic serfs by the year 4520 and among them is Ava. There many great means to exercice morphological freedom, and so are the means for spiritual folks, that do live in a nuanced yet nicer and closer-knitted community. And the technical & social details under-the-hood are also intricate and worth my storytelling as well. But more onto such in later entries.

Characters / actors / narrative agents [sketches soon]

I do have a special perspective for my story, considering the multimedia interactive and manifestation toy that it represents too... In a nutshell though, a self-insert is a major key agent, with 3-4 characters surrounding her narratively. There may be more characters distributed with great variety, but this structure is thus far the nucleus of the narrative "cell" at play here. 😉

A couple of 'outsider' idea prompts to guide me here as well...

the virgin "neural network scaling hypothesis" vs the chad "a sufficiently smart hacker could write an AGI in Lisp on a 1970s minicomputer", from a @nostalgebraist-autoresponder ask from user moths-in-the-window

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And yes, there is way more information to come as I play, watch, listen, read and curate more content, as to iterate & improve the wider world into the mixture that my canon base lore is.

(I am still figuring ways to get my own music tracks & remixed content going as far as making cooler video curation playlists and inspirational mood-boards but as audio + multimedia)

But the following should give you a good idea of the tone I try to set through my nuanced yet solarpunk-y bright narrative themes. Because whilst I may use dark colors, narrative components and start with a dystopic premise, I still aim to empower, inspire and get positive / constructive messages out there. Because as much as there is much room for complaints in life, I feel like the driving force to get anywhere satisfactory or enjoyable in a nuanced world is often left to the implicit details, which is quite easy to miss nowadays, especially as a autistic, *-divergent or just regular folks at the top of the ladder.

Cya later with another devlog. ^*^//

[kathrinesadventures]

Apologies!

I'm so sorry to say this but I've been extremely busy these past week. I won't make up excuses like "Oh gawd muh jawb" or "Uni being a$$" or stuff like that. All I'll say is that I'll try my hardest to get a couple hundred words in and hopefully, I'll write more next week.

[kathrinesadventures]

Happy friday everyone!! Hope you all have a lovely weekend! Remember to drink lotsa water, and give your friends a hug, who knows who may need it. I need a hug ;-;