2025 Interactive Media Showcase
This is a featured collection of student projects from the 2024-2025 academic year with interactive and multimedia elements.
“SIM-TOM”
Owen Wheeler
Become a part of SIM-TOM, a mechanical hivemind of scrapped processors lurking in the shadows, whose every choice is dictated by popular vote–for better or for worse.
Details
Platform: Twine, Reaper
Instructions: Turn up the volume or use headphones, as some story beats are conveyed exclusively through audio. Vote with your heart.
“Tower Stack Game”
Mackenzie Swain
Tower Stack is a one-button game that utilizes the mouse. It was built using JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. It is a fun game where the goal is to click the mouse at the right time to add a box to the top of the stack. Have fun trying it out!
Details
Platform: JavaScript, HTML, CSS
Instructions: The goal is to click the mouse at the right time to add boxes to the stack without missing. There are some challenges to this game so pay close attention!
“Graymoor”
Zoe Hanrahan
You wake up in a strange reality, with only a vague memory of what came before. You remember bright dinner lights and a strange man, but something must have happened between now and then. With no choice but to move forward, you must navigate this strange new world and maybe recover your memories of what happened along the way.
Details
Platform: The work is created primarily through two WordPress sites enhanced with embedded HTML code (a tiny bit of JavaScript), and the two main ending pages were created using Canva websites.
Instructions: To navigate through the game, click on the choice you wish to make. However, you may encounter parts of the game that require more interaction from you, so be prepared.
Content Warnings: Graymoor references zombies (mentions of decaying flesh, losing teeth, etc). It also involves cursing and mentions of an accident that results in a character being hospitalized (though the details of the accident aren’t ever explicitly mentioned.) You can also die in violent ways in the game. Note: that this is also included in the entry of the game.
“last words of a star”
Jordan Beaupre
A Twine game where you play as a dying star and interact with cosmic bodies.
Details
Platform: Twine
Instructions: Click through the narrative, make choices by clicking.
Content Warning: General themes of death, not graphic.
“No One Should Read This Book”
Rylie Vann
Get your mind out of the gutter! This book parodies the sub-genre of romance novels called “bodice rippers,” and focuses on creating a new, uncomfortable read each time.
Details
Platform: JavaScript, Tracery, Paged.js
Instructions: Refresh the page to generate a new book. If it makes you uncomfortable, embrace it!
“Jack-O-Lantern”
Laura Rider
Time-based kinetic poetry chronicling the story of a decaying pumpkin. Initially, this ran in the autumn alongside real pumpkins, with each day progressively offering a new image. Now that the time frame has concluded, please make use of the time machine to view the past.
Details
Platform: p5.js
Instructions: Enter a number 0-20. Move the cursor across the screen. Try a new number.
“Portals”
Hannah Holstrom
Portals is an interactive story made on Twine about the grief process, and how grief and memory are intertwined.
Details
Platform: Twine
Instructions: There are many different paths to go down, and players should click through the story more than once to experience the story in full.
Content Warnings: Grief and death.
“Generation”
Val Cotton
Generation is a kinetic – and occasionally interactive – poem about fish.
Details
Platform: Twine
Instructions: Click the fish!
“The Ilsefy-Er”
Ilse Castaneda-Forkel
A self portrait is meant to represent the artist in whatever way they choose to express themself. In this case, this self portrait takes bodies of text and highlights every occurrence of the name “Ilse”, because names are an important part of who we are.
Details
Platform: HTML, CSS, JavaScript
Instructions: Type in or paste in text into the text box and press the “click to change text button.” Then press the “Click to Ilse-fy it!” button to see all the letters in the name “ilse” change color.
“Setter Skills 101”
This is a simulation game about setting in volleyball. Test your skills in the increasingly fast paced tempo of volleyball!
Details
Platform: JavaScript, p5.js, HTML
Instructions: The ball will fall from the ceiling. Click which area the ball needs to go to. It will increase in speed as you play more and more. Try for a high score!
