E05 in Error Messages, Jijack

E05 in error messages, or Jijack

This one requires a bit of an explanation.

In its infantcy, Jijack was a short story called "The Creature", which was told entirely through pop-up messages. As the hapless and innocent reader attempted to read through an e-version of War of the Worlds, they would be constantly bombarded by flashing text and cheesy effects that would eventually make the intended text unreadable.

Unfortunetly for the world, "The Creature" possesed the one flaw that makes an short story unreadable. It wasn't finished. And so the idea was scrapped.

Without an idea, but full of wimsy and frustration with Stockton (for one reason or another), I decided that I would keep my hijacked website plan, but replace the story with quotes that my roommates and I heard around campus and loved so much that we would eventually use chalk to make them part of the permenant decoration for our apartment.

Because I was so mad at Stockton (and being able to remember why would make this story so much better) I decided that if a site was going to be ruined, even in a simulation, it was going to be the homepage.

(Viva la revolution!)

Eventually, the name was shorted to Jijack, simply because "H" and "J" are dangerously close to eachother on the keyboard.

Jijack also marks the third occasion that the Ordon Sheep has made its way into a Stockton project.

It's also interesting to note that I'm not longer mad at Stockton. In fact, I'm a bit sad that the semester is over, because now I have nothing better to do than read a lot of Nabokov and play a lot of videogames. Somehow, this makes the entire project just a little bit ironic.

Flash: Six word short story

Six word short story

You would think that with such a dreamy image and graceful font that I would have written something beautiful and eloquent. You would be wrong.

Hypertext

The Secret Sharer

The hypertext site was originally designed to be different everytime the reader visited the main page. The background image would change, the text would change, and things would be added or removed. Because the story it tells deals with secrets, I wanted the site to give the reader the feeling that they weren't getting the whole story.

Because of the complexity of my orginal plan, I was forced to simplify the site and remove the aspects of the fiction that were randomized. Rather than letting the reader choose where they wanted to go, I made it so that the reader could only choose one link, and would be directed through the story in a linear way.