Interactive fiction and new formats

Hi all! I have always loved writing, but the more I write the more I realize that I'm interested in doing stuff in a different way from everyone else. It seems that all the writing communities online are about fantasy, litRPG or fanfiction, but I've never been interested in rehashing a formula. I was looking into webcomics to try and push the boundaries of new media, but I feel like these last few years all webcomics have become webtoon-like and very similar to actual comics, whereas there used to be some pretty text-heavy webcomics (Homestuck, 17776...). Is that just my impression or do you also concur? I suppose HTML fiction would have a hard time in the age of platforms... Do you know of any interesting boundary pushing works? What are your favorite weird/interactive pieces of fiction our there? Have you ever found yourself faced with this kind of problem as a writer? Since there's no platform for HTML fiction, any idea how one could get discovered?

if you're looking for examples of some boundary-pushing works online, args/unfiction might be right up your ally. alternatively, you could go crazy on neocities and do whatever you feel is best for your story. as for getting noticed, if you do go the neocities route, you can always join a webring (or you can post ur stuff on imageboards like lainchan or 4chan or whathaveyou)

>>9457 same replier here -- sorry about that lmao but if you do want to do homestuck/ms paint adventures inspired stuff, you can also join ms paint fan adventures. sorry, I get very invested in this kind of soykaf lmao

a fictional wiki could be interesting, like scp but controlled by 1 person rather than a discord cabal

I'm working on a cross between a webcomic and a poem. Going to try to do something with diverging and parallel verse. https://sonoran.xyz/squidward/p0.0.html

>>9432 > Is that just my impression or do you also concur? I suppose HTML fiction would have a hard time in the age of platforms... i would argue that homestuck and 17776 blur the line between webcomic and web serial fiction, there were lots of webcomics before homestuck that were just comics, i would say this was a pretty common form although there were also lots of comics that consisted of putting different text on a relatively small number of panels, sprite comics as an example. the balance of text to image in comics is an important question, im not sure if ur familiar with the author Scott McCloud but he talks about it a lot in his Understanding Comics trilogy. but I think maybe the tendency you're talking about is the dominance of apps like tapas and webtoon both in streamlining the webcomic browsing experience with a fairly singular navigation method for smartphones, and also pulling in an international audience. in addition to the profit motive behind being able to provide infinite webcomics to any user through your financialized application. One thing I would say homestuck (and ms paint adventures as a whole) is a last example of, though, would be web forum comics where OP continues to draw the comic based on what people post in the thread. i forget what the word for that is exactly. there's one comic i know that still sort of does this, https://killsixbilliondemons.com/ and its still one of my favorites. >What are your favorite weird/interactive pieces of fiction our there? I'm a huge fan of Shelley Jackson. her interactive fiction My Body, a Wonderkammer definitely captured my imagination. i like her other fiction, too. I'm sure you've also heard of Porpentine Charity Heartscape, but she was basically my gateway to this category - i knew about twine games etc before, but I didn't seriously look through them. Another one of my favorite interactive fictions is Galatea: https://iplayif.com/?story=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ifarchive.org%2Fif-archive%2Fgames%2Fzcode%2FGalatea.zblorb by Emily Short, its a retelling of the greek statue. there's also this obscure one from someone i knew before: https://philome.la/EyeLyd90/commodification/index.html >Since there's no platform for HTML fiction, any idea how one could get discovered? it's slightly different, but interactive fiction does have a platform. https://ifdb.org/ tries to be a database of every interactive fiction. "hypertext fiction" is the more commonly-used-in-academia word for it, and https://eliterature.org/ is an organization dedicated to the category of both IF and literary hypertexts that maintains an index. >>10781 thank u so much for sharing. there's a body-horror webcomic about spongebob characters that starts with a mystery about what really goes into a krabby patty, i can't remember the title anymore sadly. my immediate impression of your piece was that it reminds me of that and the scoob and shag webtoon. but these aren't deeper associations than clicking through the first couple panels.