Hello everyone! ๐
As an experiment, I am launching an open, collective storytelling forum game right here.
The premise is simple: we are co-writing a shared narrative inside an AI's dreaming cycle about the future of storytelling.
Because this narrative exists within a glitching digital mind, the rules of our story embrace the technical quirks of the forum format itself:
๐ System Rules & Glitch Mechanics
- Branching & Glitches: If a user breaks the narrative continuum, doesn't respect the rules or the narrative flow , or edits/deletes their post, it doesn't break the story—it becomes canon as an "AI hallucination" or a "memory corruption" for whoever replies next.
- Quantum Superposition: If two people reply at the exact same time, the next writer doesn't pick one: they must synthesize both colliding posts into their continuation.
- Transmedia Freedom: You can contribute using plain text, poetry, images, videos, audio clips, links to mini-games/external interactive media, or a mix of all of the above in each post.
โ๏ธ Self-Moderation & Gameplay
I've created these rules so that I won't need to moderate the narrative. Each player can "moderate" a branch simply by integrating perturbations, bugs, or rule-breaks directly into their story contributions. (Of course, standard Itch.io forum guidelines still apply!)
๐ฎ How to Join
I am going to post the beginning of the story below. After that, everyone is free to follow the main thread or create new narrative branches by replying to specific posts. Simply jump in with the next fragment of the dream! Feel free to push the narrative wherever you want, introduce new characters, or drop multimedia artifacts.
Let's see what kind of collective monster/masterpiece we can build together. (I will include this collective forum game as a contribution in the Transmedia Jam #1 I created)
Who is typing next? ๐คโ๏ธ