Darkzoo

Darkzoo

Submitted by Anaïs Guilet on Thu, 04/02/2009 - 15:06

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Ce roman hypertextuel comprend sept personnages principaux. Le lecteur peut cliquer pour choisir le point de vue d'un des personnages. Chaque piste choisie possède sa propre intrigue, dont deux sont des histoires fantastiques, entre autres de loup-garou. Le point commun entre les histoires est le zoo.

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The savagery was beautiful. Through the zoomed-in camcorder viewfinder, cut off from the wider extraneous world, he saw only the beast and the bloody flesh. Brian made a soft, low sound from deep down in his throat; a growl of brotherhood with the ravening lion.

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Dark Zoo is a new form of novel - one that can only be achieved using the Web. Here you can click to read a multi-viewpoint novel or choose to read the same story from the point of view of one of the main characters. At any point you can switch back and forth between viewpoints to pick up different aspects of the story. This gives more than simply another viewpoint, for there are sub-plots that are only exposed in the character views. Even so, each of the views is a complete story unto itself.

This is a story and meant to be read. As a result there are no video or sound clips. There is a separate 'Picture Book'. This is a captioned photo-album of the events viewed through the eyes of one of the children of the story. This 'Snapshot' track contains small photographs. If you click on a photo, you'll get an enlarged, or related picture. Click again, and you'll go back to the 'Picture Book' page.

While you are reading, you can move the mouse-cursor over a character button (and not click). You will see a capsule summary of what is happening in that character's view. If you move the cursor over the 'Novel' button, you'll get either an animal-related fact or a quotation. NOTE: Some of these captions are lengthy, and the browser makes them go away after about five seconds. If you want to keep them on longer, just wiggle the mouse a little while you're reading.

The beginning page of any view has a 'chapter bar'. This allows you to navigate directly to a particular chapter.

At the End Page of Dark Zoo, there is a reader feedback field. The author (me) would appreciate any comments about the work. Thanks.

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