Red Thread of Fate
APR 2024
Skills: Interaction Design, Illustration
Technology: P5.js, JavaScript, Procreate, Premeire Pro
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Overview
An interactive retelling of the Red Thread of Fate folklore. By having two plays press buttons that slowly get closer, they represent the characters that also get gradually closer to each other, finding that love is based on choice rather than fate. The story follows an East-Asian Four Act structure as a project for my class Storytelling for Project Development.
Process
- Researching original story and adapting into an East Asian 4-Act structure
- Storyboarding
- Writing an A/V script
- Mapping keys to progress the frames and story
Product
Medium and Message
While in the process of planning my project, I knew I wanted it to be interactive through pressing the keys, but I couldn’t figure out how exactly to go about it until a discussion with my professor. As the users progressed through the story, the key prompts would move closer and closer, therefore forcing the users to become closer in the same way as the characters.
This crucial interaction is the core of my project, with the aim to create connections among users digitally and physically.