STOP THE SPREAD
Screenshots from Stop the Spread, text-based game, October 2020.
To be able to play the game, please download the html file from Google Drive to your hardware via the given link and then open it with a web browser. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jaSkeRk7eJCm7xEibUY8ORpuUQsoPKbq/view?usp=sharing
Stop the Spread is a text based Twine game about a semi-fictional
story of a virus appearing in a world. The player is positioned to
perform as a government to stop the spread of the virus through
making decisions. While the content evolves around the body-politics,
political regimes, management of crises, the narrative structure
stresses the limitations of a system through its loop-like endless form.
The contradiction between its endless form and limitation of
systematic options questions the “freedom” that is provided through
the informatics systems.