User:Modred

Contributions: 138 (approximately) as of Febuary 22, 2007.

Current Project: Odoi

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Old Project:The Mysterious Unknown

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one day, one island
An idea, (the name is random, first thing that came to mind), about making something similar (in principle) to WorldWiki, except that it is based on an island (to make it possible to finish it), and covers the approximate course of one day. Possible ways for this too be accomplished that I can think of, would be to give the "viewer" the option of choosing at what point in time they are viewing any given location. (possibly via having three articles for every room, a Past article, a Present article and a Future article)

The most crucial point of this idea is that the "viewer" is just that, is not a person, but a view of a specific place at a specific point in time. The "viewer" cannot interact with objects or open doors, they can move from place to place instantaneously, without having to go through the intervening terrain. This might be done by using a "map", which I'm thinking is essentially accomplished in a like manner to the featured article, the map is shown on each page, but to edit the map, you would go to "odoi/map" article, and changes there would be reflected in every map on every page. And all you would have to put in the article would be (something like): Though I would think there would be alot of code involved in that. I don't know how to do that, but it probably wouldn't be impossible to learn it from the Wikia sites, Wikipedia or somewhere should have helpful stuff. Assuming it's possible in the first place to do this. Otherwise I would just have a link to the map in every article.

using this, you can follow along with a large number of stories that happen on the island, but you might pick up on them at any point along their story lines, (there is no "starting point" other then the map itself, from there you choose where you begin), choosing to follow them forward or backward as you want. (at least, that's the theory)

This is my idea for a Wikistory/Interactive Story.


 * Interesting idea. I've done something similar, at Quest, an interactive fiction portal with about 30 components. It's also based on an island, and gives users more than one option for any particular thing, to be viewed in any order. It has a lot more circular paths (going back to a previous page to take a different option) as opposed to linear ones (like Atrapado en el Tiempo). It's currently realism mostly, and it's heavily driven by knowing what page to go to next. Check it out! Yunzhong   Hou  5000+ edits 23:48, 22 February 2007 (UTC)