DIGI- FICTION

Triple Media Literature.

DIGI-FICTION

DIGITAL FICTION (ALSO KNOWN AS ELECTRONIC

LITERATURE) IS WRITTEN FOR AND READ FROM A
COMPUTER AND USES THE CAPABILITIES OF THE
COMPUTER FOR LITERARY EFFECT.

Some digital fictions contain sound effects, images, film,

hyperlinks, or mini-games. Therefore, rather than existing
as a digital version of a print text (like an e-book), digital
fictions would lose something if they were printed out.
Also unlike e-books, in which the reader moves from one page
to another in a linear fashion, in many digital fictions, the reader
has a role in constructing the narrative, either by selecting
hyperlinks or by controlling a character’s journey through the
fictional world.

Digital fictions therefore require that the reader interacts with

them throughout the reading experience.
Digi-Fiction is also called Triple
Media Literature. It uses the
combination of three media: book,
movie/video, and internet website to
tell a narrative, so readers must
engage in navigating, reading, and
viewing in all three forms to
comprehend the full story.
EXAMPLES OF
DIGI-FICTION
SKELETON GREEK
• SKELETON CREEK - MULTI-PLATFORM
HORROR MYSTERY FOR 10 AND UP

• In a groundbreaking format, Skeleton

Creek is broken into two parts — Ryan’s
text in the book, and Sarah’s videos on a
special website, with links and passwords
given throughout the story. Skeleton
Creek is a book and a movie at the same
time
LEVEL 26
• LEVEL 26 IS A DIGITAL HORROR NOVEL SERIES BY
ANTHONY E. ZUIKER AND DUANE
SWIERCZYNSKI.THE NOVELS INCLUDE ONLINE
CONTENT, WITH VIDEO ELEMENTS AND AN
INTERACTIVE WEB COMMUNITY.READERS WERE
ENCOURAGED TO VISIT LEVEL26.COM TO SEE THIS
• CONTENT.
Law enforcement personnel categorize murderers on a scale
of twenty-five levels of evil-from the naïve opportunists
starting out at Level 1 to the organized, premeditated
torture murderers who inhabit Level 25.But to an elite
unnamed investigations group assigned to hunt down the
world’s most dangerous killers, headed by Steve Dark, a
new category of killer is being defined.
NIGHTINGALE'S
PLAYGROUND
• CREATED BY DREAMING METHODS
AUTHORS ANDY CAMPBELL AND JUDI
ALSTON, NIGHTINGALE’S PLAYGROUND IS
AN AMBITIOUS NEW WORK OF DIGITAL
FICTION DIVIDED INTO FOUR INTERLINKED
PARTS: AN ATMOSPHERIC BROWSER BASED
EXPERIENCE; AN INTERACTIVE VIRTUAL
BOOK WITH PAGES YOU CAN TURN WITH
THE MOUSE; A SHORT EBOOK DOWNLOAD;
AND AN IMMERSIVE REALTIME 3D WALK-
THROUGH THAT TAKES THE WRITTEN
WORD INTO STRANGE NEW DIMENSIONS.
• Nightingale’s Playground was partly
inspired by an old 8-bit computer
game called The Sentinel – a unique
and haunting strategy game devised by
genius programmer Geoff Crammond
that baffled magazine reviewers when
it was originally released back in the
1980s.
THANK YOU!