a show of hands
22 Short Films about Grammar
12 Easy Lessons to Better Time Travel
Labyrinth: the Rulebook without Game
Lumperica Animado
Grand Theives Audio Modologues
Digital Thought, Digital Speech
Barthes' Bachelorette
Supreme Commanbear DVD Extras
Stravinsky's Muse

[Details and descriptions]

a show of hands. Literatronic. August 2006.
Adaptive hypertext novel, using the Literatronic system. Re-envigorating text-based eliterature, "a show of hands" uses adaptive technology to present a new kind of hypertext. The enlaced tale of the de la Palma sisters is in-progress but will be available for reading throughout. Read more about this piece here.

22 Short Films About Grammar. Bunk Magazine. August 2006
Short digital films produced for teaching specific grammar lessons. Each was created using Activision's The Movies as an authoring tool. These present short scenes that play off a particular grammatical rule. Designed primarily for computer-aided composition instruction, the site also offers and Error Log to help students keep track of frequent mistakes and to know which film they should watch.

12 Easy Lessons to Better Time Travel. Bunk Magazine. April 2006.
Windows: http://www.bunkmag.com/time/introduction.html
MAC: http://www.bunkmag.com/time/introduction_mac.html
Featured in: Second Person. MIT Press. November 2006.
Interactive Story using HTML, FLASH, and JAVASCRIPT.

This hypertext novel uses several media forms to tell its tail, including a Flash interface, a conversational agent, interwoven html pages, pop-up windows, and customized navigational tools, such as an oragami fortune teller. As the reader follows Barry Munz through his time travels, links become a temproal navigation device offering greater coherence than most class literary hypertexts.

Labyrinth: The Rulebook without Game .Bunk Magazine. February 2005. Interactive narrative/game
featured in Notre Dame Review Issue 19 Winter 2005.

"Labyrinth: The Rulebook without Game" presents itself as a game manual, or set of game manuals, for a game that you will never play. Weaving together scraps from various game manuals, a trickster programmer has devised this labyrinth that catches you with the force of your desire for
>mastery. Ultimately, "Labyrinth" explores the pleasure of hypertext, the false infinity of combinatorics, and the control-lust that interactive media elicit.  The work itself is a combination game, fiction, and critique of new media itself. In a complex Flash animation, "Labyrinth" combines text, visuals, sound, and, of course, mini-games to produce a maze of lexias of narrative and critical components.

Lumperica Animado, Iowa Review Web. December 2004
adaptation of the work of Diamela Eltit (in Spanish and English). An interactive exploration of one of the great works of Latin American literature.

Grand Thieves Audio Modologues,Bunk Magazine. Sept. 2004. Interactive monologues as mods for "Grand Theft Auto: Vice City"

In the notorious game franchise, Grand Theft Auto, drivers of stolen cars can listen to a variety of radio stations. These modologues hijack that sound track and recontextualize the game play. Modologues include the driver's ed instructor, Tony's mother, the army recruiter, and a slightly anachronistic book-on-tape read by Arnold Schwarzenegger. These audio reappropriations of the gameplay critique not only the role of sound in games but also the way in which "play" is reappropriated by video game narratives.

"Digital Thought, Digital Speech," Interactions and Identities. January 2004 Chapter and lab for online textbook on New Media.

This chapter offers a brief history of chatbots along with a lab with which students can customize a JavaScript chatbot.

"Barthes' Bachelorette ," Bunk Magazine. April 2003.
Interactive Storytelling Characters in a dating game. (PC Only). Read more about this project here.

"Supreme Commanbear DVD Extras," Bunk Magazine. Feb. 2002.
Interactive animated shorts in send up of DVD bonus features.

The DVD extras for a film that was never and perhaps should never be made. See the making-of featurette, interviews and more. (FLASH)

"Stravinsky’s Muse," The Iowa Review Web . September 2002, Flash narrative

Though it calls itself a hypertext, "Stravinsky's Muse" is a short narrative that centers around the linguistic and conceptual point of view of Stravinsky Jones, a violinist torn between his wife and his lover. The interface represents a kind of rubik's cube (or sphere) of his conceptual paradigms. By turning the wheels and aligning different groups of ideas, the interactor slowly uncovers the various moments of his narrative.