{"id":51,"date":"2017-08-07T14:30:28","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T12:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/turnonliterature.eu\/works\/?p=51"},"modified":"2017-08-31T16:00:38","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T14:00:38","slug":"inanimate-alice-perpetual-nomads-part-1-sand-smudges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/turnonliterature.eu\/works\/2017\/08\/07\/inanimate-alice-perpetual-nomads-part-1-sand-smudges\/","title":{"rendered":"Inanimate Alice: Perpetual Nomads (Part 1) &#8211; Sand + Smudges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Author(s):<br \/>\nMez Breeze<\/p>\n<p>Short Description<br \/>\n&#8220;Inanimate Alice: Perpetual Nomads &#8211; Sand + Smudges&#8221; comprises Part One of a five-part<br \/>\nYoung Adult interactive Digital Novella.<\/p>\n<p>Summary<br \/>\nAlice Field is back in a special five-part story spanning the gap between episodes six and<br \/>\nseven of the award-winning Inanimate Alice series. Fans of the series who have been<br \/>\nfollowing Alice\u2019s adventures for over 10 years can now experience Part 1 of this latest Alice<br \/>\nstory told through an innovative mix of online storytelling and multimedia\/360 photo<br \/>\ninteraction.<\/p>\n<p>Story<br \/>\nIn this Part 1 of &#8220;Inanimate Alice: Perpetual Nomads&#8221;, Alice is stuck. On a bus. In the middle<br \/>\nof the desert, miles from nowhere. Great. Maybe she could go for help, but where? Like any<br \/>\nworldly 19-year-old adventurer, while Alice uses her phone to download a chat app called<br \/>\nWhispurring Nomads, she also takes stock of the environment she\u2019s stuck in the desert, and<br \/>\nthe others trapped on the broken-down bus with her.<\/p>\n<p>Main Mechanics<br \/>\nPart One of the &#8220;Inanimate Alice: Perpetual Nomads&#8221; is made up of 38 pages containing:<br \/>\n\u2022 Dynamic text which contains interactive clickable regions that expand and reveal<br \/>\nadditional narrative elements.<br \/>\n\u2022 360 photo pop-outs where a reader is able to explore a rendering of elements from<br \/>\nan accompanying Virtual Reality Prototype.<br \/>\n\u2022 An original music score and video pop-outs presented as interactive \u201con-click\u201d<br \/>\ncomponents.<\/p>\n<p>Features<br \/>\n1) Part One of the five-part Digital Novella Set accessible at:<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/perpetualnomads.inanimatealice.info\/novella1.<br \/>\n2) A Virtual Reality Prototype for the Oculus Rift downloadable from:<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/perpetualnomads.inanimatealice.info\/prototype.<br \/>\n4) A Video Trailer containing footage from the VR Prototype is available for viewing via:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_OCz1gU3kbA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n5) High Resolution Screenshots available for viewing and download at:<\/p>\n<blockquote data-secret=\"tuce4NhJ9S\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/perpetual-nomads.com\/news\/screenshots\/\">Screenshots<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"http:\/\/perpetual-nomads.com\/news\/screenshots\/embed\/#?secret=tuce4NhJ9S\" data-secret=\"tuce4NhJ9S\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;Screenshots&#8221; &#8212; Inanimate Alice: Perpetual Nomads\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nReception<br \/>\n\u2022 &#8220;Inanimate Alice: Perpetual Nomads &#8211; Sand + Smudges&#8221; premiered at the Frozen<br \/>\nRiver Film Festival in Winona, Minnesota on February 2017.<br \/>\n\u2022 In May 2017, &#8220;Inanimate Alice: Perpetual Nomads &#8211; Sand + Smudges&#8221; was<br \/>\nshortlisted for both the Judge\u2019s Prize and the People\u2019s Choice Award as part of the 2017<br \/>\nOpening Up Digital Fiction Competition: \u201cThe first ever UK competition to find the best new<br \/>\nexamples of popular digital fiction\u2026run by Sheffield Hallam University and Bangor<br \/>\nUniversity, and part of the AHRC-funded Reading Digital Fiction project.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2022 Also in May 2017, &#8220;Inanimate Alice: Perpetual Nomads &#8211; Sand + Smudges&#8221; was<br \/>\npresented as part of the Keynote Conference address given by Dr Carolyn Guertin at \u201cDigital<br \/>\nNarratives Around the World: A Symposium on the Global Encounters of Computing and<br \/>\nStorytelling\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Modality of presentation: Web based work<\/p>\n<p>URL to work:<a href=\"http:\/\/perpetualnomads.inanimatealice.info\/novella1\/\"> http:\/\/perpetualnomads.inanimatealice.info\/novella1\/<\/a><br \/>\nURL to Video: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_OCz1gU3kbA&amp;\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_OCz1gU3kbA&amp;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author(s): Mez Breeze Short Description &#8220;Inanimate Alice: Perpetual Nomads &#8211; Sand + Smudges&#8221; comprises Part One of a five-part Young Adult interactive Digital Novella. 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