This is the final project guidelines for an undergraduate course in Electronic Literature. Originally the project asked students to adapt a fairytale into Twine, but as the pandemic hit in Spring 2020, the guidelines expanded so that students had the option of making an interactive story about their experience during the pandemic.
The Ring™ Camera Pandemic Log is an experiment in speculative surveillance, imagining what Amazon's smart doorbell cams see during the novel coronavirus lockdown, from the camera's glitchy perspective.
What dreams, hopes, and aspirations were broken by the global coronavirus pandemic in 2020? The Infinite Catalog of Crushed Dreams is an endless stream of procedurally generated disappointment, sadness, and grief.
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