The Ballroom

An interactive hypertext story (2019)

A two-tone image of a chandelier with the words The Ballroom Liza Daly

You arrived at the ballroom well after midnight. The End.

A short "mutable story" in which a complete narrative is always present but can be manipulated by the player in sometimes surprising ways.

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Reviews

Modifying something that seems trivial can overturn the whole chain of events, adding entire stretches of paragraph to the page and radically changing the existing ones.

Interactive Licktion

What starts as a disappointing anecdote in the life of an impoverished Regency miss can turn in other, rather startling directions.

Emily Short

Each interaction could radically change the universe of the story, changing from the time and place of the story, to the very nature of the characters.

Ruber Eaglenest

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