Bandersnatch: a process criticism

Abstract

The complex systematization of interactive narratives takes place in man-machine innovations. They are enhanced by the use of technological tools that manipulate hypermedia application interfaces. Interfaces encode the HTML language into scripts that translate into narratological concepts and multi-plot content to users across platforms and communication networks. This article investigates the process of hypertextual creation in multi-plot, Bandersnatch, and its script writing in an interactive fiction feature film as an event-movie and a macro-episode. The narratological systematization gravitates to a process of structural readjustment due to interactive potential that the online digital medium provides to the interactor in the enjoyment of the mind game film. The occurrence of this interactive phenomenon can open the narrative work to a shared authorship with the interactor — where the multilinear dimension of the story cognitively provokes the nervous system through the “extensive involvement of the body in its psychosensory, synesthetic globality” (SANTAELLA, 2010). The aim of this paper is to demonstrate how the manipulation of the structural elements of fictional worlds in interactive narrative reveals the multiple dimension of reality in the possible worlds to relations between the "virtual" (non-actual) and the "actual" (real) operating intersemiotic complexities through the language's phenomena and other signs.

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