This Is Not My Beautiful House

Project Overview:

Interactive digital poetry installation, developed for browser under mentor Jeff Tanton (VP of Creative at Mediatonic) for Creative Youth Development Award

Roles and responsibilities

Design

nonlinear narrative design, visual scripting in Twine, design documentation, bug fixing, gameplay scripting, visual design direction, remotely lead team, project managing and successfully adapting creative brief to collaborators’ skillsets and time constraints

Writing

writing 16 poems that can be combined into any 4 to create a compelling story, writing all supporting material, commissioner management, created pitch deck, image editing, cost out (time and funding) tasks across Art, UI, UX, Animation, Coding, and Audio Engineering, business writing to secure in-kind funding and space for physical installation

Process and approach

Process

Pitched for a year-long funding award offered by Creative Youth Foundation, connected with mentor, solo developed the prototype in Twine, wrote all materials, iterated with key stakeholders, exhibited at festival

Approach

I approached this as an opportunity to build my skillset - it was an ambitious project designed to stretch all skills associated with narrative game design/writing.

Tools and technologies

Harlowe, Twine, Googledocs, Pixlr, CSS

Sample of work

https://hannahraymondcox.itch.io/this-is-not-my-beautiful-house-sample

Team collaboration

Worked with Jeff Tanton (VP of Creative at Mediatonic) and various freelance collaborators across Art, UI, UX, Animation, Audio Engineering for the design process. Liaised and provided updates for exhibiting work with commissioners across the Creative Youth Development Award team

Result and impact

Exhibited at Fuse International Festival 2022, published at itchi.io and in Barbican Young Poets’ showcase

Reflection and improvement

This project is one of my favourites, but not possible to complete with the available funding. I have been much better at scoping work ever since! I’m very proud of the non-linear combinatorial storytelling capabilities, and creating impact with limited tools.