A Drive Through the Woods

A Drive Through the Woods is an interactive story created to explore trauma and coming to terms with one’s past. Part of the purpose of this project was to learn Twine, but I wanted to explore how dread and horror can be explored in an interactive format. Particularly, when it comes to revisiting the past, I wanted to use ludonarrative dissonance as one cannot rewrite the actions of the past and attempting to forget is nearly impossible and only worsens one’s trauma. I also wanted to capture how one’s thoughts may be when driving on an empty road on Christmas Eve: feelings of loneliness heightened by the cold weather.