Restitution (Dorian Passer)

Restitution

Stateless Writing by Charles Henkle
Stateful Writing by Dorian Passer
Artistic Engineering by Dorian Passer

This stateless story was first published on March 1916.
This stateful story was first published on October 2022.

Author Notes

This study was made for ECTOCOMP 2022 for La Petite Mort: for those who want to speed-write their game in four hours or less.

This is study in stateful media with an emphasis on narration-based agency. To avoid breaking a reader's suspension of disbelief, this work eschews story-based agency.

What's this mean for you? An interactive fiction experience that is more "literary" and less "game" made by combining quintessential elements of parser-based, choice-based, chat-based, and templated-based works under a new theory of agency in stateful media.

Accessibility

• Device light/dark mode
• Resizable/reflowable text
• High-contrast support
• Color-blind design
• Image alt text

Supported Browsers

• Chrome, Brave, Edge, Chromium, Firefox, or Safari

Supported Hardware

• Desktop, Laptop, Mobile, or Tablet
• Keyboard, Mouse, or Controller

Offline Reading for Desktop or Laptop

• Press the "Run stateful narration" button
• Save the website to your device
• Open the html file in a supported browser to read

Legal Notice

Restitution by Charles Henkle is in the public domain.

All other material is under copyright of Dorian Passer.