The Trans Morbid Adventure
So there were books called Choose Your Own Adventure, where you made plot choices, and each choice took you to a different page in the book, a different journey, and potentially a different ending.
My friend and I made this out of the love of the idea and for no other reason (perhaps it was for my writing class?). Well, there was never a commercial intent, and we hosted it on Geocities.
I coded it by hand – not particularly difficult, but also beyond most people.
Our idea was to have more wrong endings than regular scenes, and make those ending as gruesome and inventive as we could. It felt awesome creating something with someone on the same page.
I think the look pretty much sums up the era.
And I was an Open Directory editor who just happened to list all the online Choose Your Own Adventure games…
And so at least one person found it and liked it enough to make a fan video or two…
It’s kinda fun not remembering the complicated flowcharts, and playing it like someone new to it…
Anyway, feel free to play, for remarkably it still exists. Note to self, copy it, keep it.
http://www.oocities.org/thetropics/paradise/2213/starttheadventure.htm
Actually, there’s a scene with a sliding device that sends you to a parallel universe and I can’t help but think it inspired Rick and Morty 😉
