Interactive Comic
- Based on the world I created for Sinthesis
- Using Characters already designed [Mara and Cypress]
- Refined Story influenced by research around Critical Position
- Interactivity will be based around choice
Critical Position
The idea I would like to investigate revolves around the way people develop in relation to predispositions based on the social circumstances they may be raised in or surrounded by. It will incorporate ideologies of social classes and I plan to explore outcomes of challenging assumed predispositions [both positive and negative].
The way I plan to show this is by having twins be separated at birth, grow up in different environments. The exploration of their duality [by having them effectively be the same person] in the different environments will describe the struggle between biological predispositions vs the cultural ideologies we are raised in.
Apart from narrative elements reflecting my critical position, I plan to show this through the audiences interaction with my comic.
[an idea I had was to have a series of panels showing the character[s] get up in the morning in a routine fashion, with interactable elements to trigger the next panel ie. clicking on the alarm clock to turn it off. I plan to have this series of panels loop until the audience chooses to click something different to trigger the branching path to a new panel where the adventure begins, reflecting how if we do not initiate our world will stay the same]
I feel there is great potential in interactive comics for immersion, and if constructed right the consequences and effects of the audiences interactions fosters the likelihood of memorable and impactful experience.
My personal interest comes from the experiences I have encountered in my life. Biologically I am Filipino but born in NZ with Kiwi ideologies. Growing up I felt culturally confused as I felt like a kiwi but was treated as a foreigner.
I feel the fields regarding discourse and ideology will be good places to begin my research.
