3D Workers Island ist eine Horrorstory, die als Installation eines Windows 95-Bildschirmschoners getarnt erzählt wird und sich in Forumsdiskussionen, Chatfenstern und auf Fan-Sites (auf Geocities!) fortsetzt. Es ist das, was man ein Lese-Abenteuer nennt.
Be aware of the following things: a) despite what it might look like, there’s no real interaction happening here – you advance the narrative by clicking, and that’s your only form of agency here; b) so effectively that means that what you’re doing is reading and looking – do you like reading and looking? GREAT! […] Think of this as a spooky tale for hallowe’en […], one which wonders what it would be like if you one day realised that the computer sandbox you like to play with might have something slightly more going on under the hood than you at first thought. Told through ‘game’ footage, screenshots of forum posts, messenger conversations and other fragmented bits of digital media, this is REALLY nicely–paced and gets…quite creepy by the end. It will take about 10 minutes of your life, but you probably weren’t going to do anything important with them anyway, were you? Exactly.
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Für den morgendlichen Kaffee oder besser noch: den nachmittäglichen. Amber.