Dread Box

"Dread Box" is "a box of a game of a story, made with the Chapbook story format on the Twine platform. It explores the collision of geometry and fiction, under Nick Montfort’s teaching that things of this sort are riddles at heart. The places of the story are rooms, loosely speaking, but they also articulate as the six sides of a box. Imagine a cube where every face is a window or tableau – or in fact a screen, because in each room you will find variable text . . . Click through the changes until you find what you like, then move on.

Some of these choices matter, though perhaps not all. There are several possible outcomes depending on the readings you choose. The box may indeed be full of dread, or struggle, or uncertainty – or something else. It all comes down to how you word your world. -- Stuart Moulthrop