trunked
twine game
Locked in the trunk of a car...
TRUNKED - A Twine Crime Game
Imagine you’re locked in the trunk of a car, with no idea how you got there. Using your wits and the contents of your pockets, you must figure out how you got into your current predicament and how to get out of it. Then you must face your captors.
I wrote TRUNKED when I first started exploring interactive writing. I was paralyzed by choice. I had some firsthand experiences with crime and murder while working as a journalist that I wanted to process. Which was a funny space to start when considering branching narratives.
When you're striking out into a new medium you shouldn't spend time worrying about what type of story you should tell. You should tell the story that speaks most strongly to you. Easy to say, not easy to practice when you've got a binder full of premises, treatments or half-cocked ideas. A lot of times for me it comes down to a feeling.
And that's what Trunked is. Something noir, something rural, partially inspired by the Elmore Leonard I was reading. Mostly I wanted to dive into that claustrophobic groove that the whole idea of 'choice' seems to provoke in me--where you can have all the choices in the world and still feel trapped.
I'm really happy with it turned out-- also with the reception-- that people seemed to really get it.
Trunked was an OFFICIAL Selection for the Hand Eye Society’s Wordplay Festival of Writerly Games.
Paul Hack from Indie Games.com said:
"TRUNKED puts you smack in the middle of a contemporary noir thriller where you are the antihero. Text is actually the perfect medium for this particular game, since for most of it you are trapped within the dark confines of a car trunk (or "boot", for those English speakers across the pond). The story is engaging and the tension is high, which is a tribute to the clear, screenplay-like writing of the game's author, Ian Daffern."
Also got a nice mention over at Kill Screen that you can check out for yourself.
If you're looking for more Twine fiction-- there's an excellent curated collection over at TwineHub that you can find here: http://twinehub.weebly.com/