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Uncle Buddy's Phantom Funhouse
''Uncle Buddy's Phantom Funhouse'' is an early multimedia hypermedia text written by John McDaid and released by Eastgate Systems in 1993. The main portion of ''Funhouse'' was written for Macintosh's HyperCard app, but portions of the hypermedia novel are also contained in the original box (containing artifacts from Uncle Buddy's literary estate, including physical tapes, playing cards, and pieces of paper). The use of transmedia storytelling, meta-fiction, and epistolary format makes this a potential early example of an alternate reality game. Plot ''Funhouse'' is framed as a collection of items that belonged to a person named Art "Uncle Buddy" Newkirk, which have been turned over to the reader by a team of lawyers following their untimely demise. The plot is nonlinear and dependent on the order in which a player navigates the in game links and physical media. Uncle Buddy is a college prankster, rock musician, literary critic and rebel. Platform HyperCard components T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hypermedia
Hypermedia, an extension of the term hypertext, is a nonlinear medium of information that includes graphics, audio, video, plain text and hyperlinks. This designation contrasts with the broader term ''multimedia'', which may include non-interactive linear presentations as well as hypermedia. It is also related to the field of electronic literature. The term was first used in a 1965 article written by Ted Nelson. The World Wide Web is a classic example of hypermedia to access web content, whereas a non-interactive cinema presentation is an example of standard multimedia due to the absence of hyperlinks. The first hypermedia work was, arguably, the Aspen Movie Map. Bill Atkinson's HyperCard popularized hypermedia writing, while a variety of literary hypertext and hypertext works, fiction and non-fiction, demonstrated the promise of links. Most modern hypermedia is delivered via electronic pages from a variety of systems including media players, web browsers, and stand-alone ap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eastgate Systems
Eastgate Systems is a publisher and software company headquartered in Watertown, Massachusetts, which publishes hypertext. Eastgate is a pioneer in hypertext publishing and electronic literature and one of the best known publishers of hypertext fiction. It publishes fiction, non-fiction, and poetry hypertexts by established authors with careers in print, as well as new authors. Its software tools include Storyspace, a hypertext system created by Jay David Bolter, Michael Joyce (writer), Michael Joyce, and John B. Smith in which much early hypertext fiction was written, and Tinderbox (application software), Tinderbox, a tool for managing notes and information. Storyspace was used in a project in Michigan to put judicial "bench books" into electronic form. Eastgate's chief scientist, Mark Bernstein, is a well-known figure in hypertext research, and has improved and extended Storyspace as well as developing new hypertext software. Product list * Tinderbox (application software), Tind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |