This reading was really interesting because it was all about the idea of having choices and having many different paths. This relates to our assignment because we are making an interactive site that will allow the viewer choice in their own “path” or way that they will experience the site. The story went on and explained how the whole purpose of the garden of forking paths was to get lost in time and that there will always be an infinite amount of choices as to where to go in life or in our case our site.
I have been having a hard time coming up with how i want to create the viewers experience in my site, but this reading helped me realize that whatever way i create this site is right. The assignment has a loose set of guidelines and because of that, comes an infinite amount of choices. From a story telling site, to a build your own, to a maze, or even a purely experimental site, the choices seemed endless. That is why it was so hard for me to come up with what i want to do, but i have decided that i want to make it more about the the viewer getting something from it and for this reason is why i don’t want to do a purely experimental piece. I have been leaning towards a build your own ice cream sundae and in my opinion this is a good theme because the person will have many choices as to what to creat but i will still be the guider and i will have precreated many different path options for the viewer. I like the fact that they know they will be creating a sundae and that at the end they will get to see what their choices created for them.
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