For their major project in English 470/570, PhD student Rye Davies used Twine to craft an interactive science fiction narrative with two possible endings and many ways to reach them. As Rye explains, the game is a meditation on issues of digitization, identity, & power in archives explored by scholars like Dorothy Berry:

The game was designed with data preservation and maintenance as a guiding concern. Specifically, it is meant to be used as an engaging way for archivists, data scientists, and library professionals to show a new generation the incredible amounts of responsibility and labor that attend work in these areas.

If TFIHS impacted you, please remember that every day archivists are working to keep people’s memories alive! The stakes are not so different from what you’ll see Rennie experience in the game.