Interactive Dialogue: Who…?
A series of story experiences expressed through character dialogues, delivered in a smartphone texting interface.
Each story has a central theme and is designed to provoke the audience’s introspective thoughts with the characters’ dilemma
Story Inspired by Technological Ethics, Cognitive Psychology, and many more concepts
Individual Creative Project
Written, Designed, and Engineered by Yang-Kai Hsieh
Interactive Dialogue:Who…? is an individual creative project I made for my final semester creative research project for my BDP Digital Arts and Media certificate. It is one of my favorite personal projects to date, and also the one I personally have the most fun in. The project included the very essence of “me“, along with many topics of my personal interests.
Who…? is an experience designed in a smartphone texting app interface that starts with a random person called Jonathan texting the user what may seem like spam messages. After being forced to agree to participate in an “experiment“ by these spam messages, users are assigned the task of deciding the other’s fate through the medium of responding to text messages. Users may have a choice between different diverging choices of texts to decide and continue with the story.
Each story, in fact, expresses a theme on the relatable humanistic issues in the modern world. Topics can go from modern technology to human ethics or even general difficult choices we have to make in life.
Project Overview
Project Details
Creator: Yang-Kai Hsieh(Individual)
Duration: 3.5 Months (Aug 2022 - Dec 2022)
Used Appliances: Unity (C#), Figma, Inky (Unity Extension)
Involved Roles: Story Writing (ideas inspired by psychology concepts and modern ethical issues in technology), Interface Design, Experience Engineer
WebGL link (Experience on Browser): https://racingandy.itch.io/interactive-dialogue-who
Here is a brief summary of the five stories and themes included:
Gray, The Past: A story about difficult choices in teenage years, regrets, and the validity of influencing future generations based on these regrets.
Sean, The Responsibility: A story that guides introspection into sources of patriarchy and responsibility.
Anthony, The Innovation: A story prompting deeper reflection into ethics behind using the recently popular Artificial Intelligence created artworks
Rudy, The Expurgation: A story that brings users to rethink the moral line of censorship and the reasoning behind modern censorships
Jasmine, the Future: A story of reflecting on the unpredictability of the future and how plans can easily fall apart, focusing on the clash of idealism and realism choices.
Sample Screenshots of Final Product:
