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IndigoAK

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The Ghosts of Serea - An Experiment
« on: 06 Jul 2010, 21:47 »

So, this isn't really a web comic because there probably won't be any traditional images ever used - no people, not even stick figures - but I thought I was share it nonetheless.  Basically, I'm attempting to construct a narrative and tell a story without extended prose.  No paragraphs or quoted dialogue, no chapters or anything.  Basically, I want to be the opposite of a book.  I plan to use short bursts of dialogue where characters can be recognized by their font, emails, police reports, newspaper articles, birth records, and the like as me medium.  All of the text will be plain white on an almost-black background (#333333 instead of #000000, I like this color better than true black) except for very specific circumstances where I plan to use a sort of maroon/burgundy color.  To keep things smooth, I've decided to do all of this with PNG images instead of normal browser rendered text and all of the images are 1280x467, so I'm kind of shooting for HD monitors or TVs, and as such it's not really something that will work on mobile browsers (which might be kind of shooting myself in the foot, but we'll see).  As for the story, most of it is already pre-planned and I know where I want to go with it, so there won't really ever be a time where it feels like the story is going nowhere or isn't moving forward.

http://www.theghostsofserea.com/

Anyways, if this sounds even remotely interesting, I'd appreciate it if you checked it out, possibly even gave some feedback.  If not, feel free to say that too.
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Re: The Ghosts of Serea - An Experiment
« Reply #1 on: 08 Jul 2010, 15:59 »

I'm usually a big fan of this kind of storytelling. Give the reader the pieces and let their imagination fill in the blanks. However, there isn't much to say about the four bits you have posted so far. We're kind of being thrown into the deep end here, and personally I would like a sort of introduction to the what and where, but I understand that this could defeat the purpose of the uh, experiment. To fit in wit the theme you could possibly put yourself, the author, in the story and put in excerpts of the hypothetical book that was written about it.

I could see this work akin to a collection of correspondence, presented as an ongoing history of a person's life, only in a much more cryptic, murder-mystery kind of fashion. One potential pitfall would be that the story moves too slowly, or becomes confusing, if the information only comes in small bursts from an arbitrary medium. So I believe the reader would benefit from this information coming in bundles, much like letters, only arranged by the medium or the subject.

That's just how I would do it, so I wouldn't blame you if you said I was talking nonsense. Anyway, I'm somewhat interested to see how this turns out.
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