This project provides a platform for creating interactive narratives with dramatically meaningful variations for the interactor to explore. The story pattern of W2P (a woman an 2 partners) is derived from an essay by Janet H. Murray “A Tale of Two Boyfriends: A Literary Abstraction Strategy for Creating Meaningful Character Variation“[1] which privileges female agency within the classic western narrative format of a romantic triangle between one woman and two men. The patterns divides male characters into Boyfriends of ObliGation (BOGs) and Boyfriends of Desire (BODs). Using this platform, authors can define a BOG and a BOD character based on multiple variants. The system then generates a set of possible plot events, similar to the events in Vladimir Propp’s classic abstraction of fairytales[2]. (Illustration by Lyric Liu)
Read Janet H. Murray's article “A Tale of Two Boyfriends”First, let's create two boyfriends with opposite characteristics. You can select attributes from the table below but the ones you can choose are limited. For each category, you have 3 positive points and 3 negative points to distribute for two characters. Please think about distributing them wisely to create dramatic contrast.
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Authority (1/4) |
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Available positive points: 3 |
Available negative points: 3 |
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BOD |
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Potency (2/4) |
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Available positive points: 3 |
Available negative points: 3 |
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BOG |
BOD |
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Negative |
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Patriarchal Privilege (3/4) |
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Available positive points: 3 |
Available negative points: 3 |
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BOG |
BOD |
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Attachment (4/4) |
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Available positive points: 3 |
Available negative points: 3 |
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BOG |
BOD |
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Negative |
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Please choose the initial storylines between female protagonist and the two boyfriends. Then it will help you generate part of the plots and consequences.
Opening |
Disruption |
Crisis |
Choice |
Consequence |
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BOG |
Happy with BOG |
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BOD |
The storylines are generated based on the characteristics you picked for each boyfriend. You can click restart to do it all over again.
BOG Characteristics |
BOD Characteristics |
Authority: td> | Authority: 122334 |
Potency: 122334 |
Potency: 122334 |
Patriarchal Privilege 122334 |
Patriarchal Privilege 122334 |
Attachment: 122334 |
Attachment: 122334 |
Opening |
Disruption |
Crisis |
Choice |
Consequence |
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BOG |
Happy with BOG |
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BOD |