Inanimate alice depicts the life of a young girl growing up in the early years of the 21st century through her blog and episodic multimedia adventures that span her life from childhood through to her twenties. Episode 1 was screened on yorkshire tv propeller tv, 17th april 2006. Published on the web individual site record status. First meet alice age 8, drawing a stickman and taking photos to send to her dad. Alice asks if she can have a dog, but her family travels too much and it would present a conflict. The last gas station, and inanimate alice, episode 1.
Inanimate alice episode 1 by dellsounds free listening. China part 1 of an episodic interactive multimedia story. Alice is hiding out in her bedroom closet while men in the apartment argue loudly with her dad. Her parents are always on the move and so alice s education is home schooling. This is the basic premise of inanimate alice, episode 1. Alice is eight years old and living in a yurt in the far north of china. Its late afternoon and all i see is the hard floorbut then i see black heavy work boots right. Beginning in china when alice is eight years old, and told over ten increasingly complex episodes, the series follows the.
Alice is 16, an aspiring game designer who grew up constantly on the move. Inanimate alice episode 4 electronic literature collection. Her friends dare her to climb to the top of an abandoned building, but as she climbs the stairs give way. Inanimate alice tells the story of a young girl who grows up to become a videogame designer at the biggest games company in the world. Her parents havent arrived back yet and its getting late. The teachers edition suite of inanimate alice episodes 1 5 provides engaging, fullscreen high definition experiences with no internet browser restrictions or download waiting times. Inanimate alice offers a glimpse into a multimedia future of childrens and young adult literature.
Episodes 1 4 of the series were written by novelist kate pullinger and developed by digital artist chris joseph as a prequel to an. While she and her mum go out searching for her dad, alice turns to her baxi. Release dates 1 also known as aka 0 release dates uk october 2005. The last gas station by inanimate alice, released 05 february 2016 1. I was drawn in to this particular narrative because of the picture found on the electronic literature collection volume 1. Hometown 2 by inanimate alice, released 01 january 2015 1. Amelie my thoughts on inanimate alice episode 1 by dellsounds published on 20140311t10. Episode 1 china 2005 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. He is two days late in coming home from his latest trip. My father has a lot of equipment, and he uses it to look for oil. Homeschooled until she was 14 years old, alice proves to be a model pupil that students can relate to whether learning at home or in the classroom. While she and her mum go out searching for her dad, alice turns to her baxi player and her virtual friend brad for comfort. For the first time ever, alice has friends her own age, and they do all the things that 14 year olds everywhere do. Now, she finds that the socalled stable hometown life.
China, the authors describe the young life of eightyearold alice living in northern china with her parents as her father works for an oil company. While her father is off working, and her mother is outdoors painting landscapes, she is inside their temporary dwelling, on her. It tells the story of alice, a young girl growing up in a nearfuture world. Alice is 10 years old and on a skiing vacation in the italian alps. Her dad is away a lot, working in siberia, where he has been dealing with some shady characters in the oil business. This is a work of fiction told in verse, cinematically, and with video games about the coming of age of a girl named alice. She and her parents have ended up in a multicultural city in the middle of england.
Episode 4 of inanimate alice finds alice going to school at last. Alice is thirteen years old and is living in an apartment in moscow, russia. Visual novels 27233 tags 2557 releases 67940 producers 9867 staff 20149 characters 88944 traits 2743. Great outdoors this is the soundtrack to inanimate alice, episode 6. Alice is worried so she heads out in the thick, blinding snow. While the focus of the story is on alice and her mother searching for their lost fatherhusband, the theme of technology. Alice, an eight year old girl living in the remote regions of northern china, sets out in a jeep with her mother to find her father who has been missing for two days.
Kongregate free online game inanimate alice episode 1. Alice s father, john, works in the oil industry and has regular field trips away from their home at basecamp. China alice is eight years old and living in far northern china. Inanimate alice tells the story of a girl growing up dreaming of becoming a game designer one day. This narrative, produced in flash, follows a young girl whose life is mediated by technology during a day of family unrest when her father is lost and found. Inanimate alice is one of the first pieces of digital fiction to combine interactivity, games, and an accessible story with a sophisticated multimedia interface. Inanimate alice episode our spot brad and i walked down to the tree house together with a picnic and the whole day planned out. What kinds of audiences would be interested in experiencing multimedia works. Get all 3 inanimate alice releases available on bandcamp and save 25% includes unlimited streaming via the free bandcamp app, plus highquality downloads of inanimate alice, episode 5. China inanimate alice is the story of a young girl growing up in the early years of the 21st century play inanimate alice episode 1. Inanimate alice is an ongoing digital novel, an interactive multimodal fiction, relating the experiences of aspiring game designer alice field and her imaginary digital friend, brad, in episodes, journals, social media, and virtual reality in development. You can browse other available content for this title, such as plot summary, trivia, goofs, etc. The ski lifts have shut down for the day and there is heavy snow falling.
Each episode of inanimate alice become increasingly interactive and gamelike, reflecting alice s own developing skills as a game designer and animator. She is being homeschooled by her mother, ming, whilst in this remote location. China by ady tang in kate pullinger and babels inanimate alice, episode 1. She is living with her parents in a remote area of northern china. It looks like we dont have photos for this title yet. Uniquely, it is a tale of progressive complexity, each episode reflecting alice s age and digital competency as she grows up. This narrative, produced in flash, follows a young girl whose life is mediated by technology during a day of family unrest when her father is. Also known as aka it looks like we dont have any akas for this title yet. The link to the flashbased narrative can be found here if you are interested in viewing it.
It has been created to help draw attention to the issue of electrosensitivity and the potentially harmful pollution resulting from wireless communications. China by kate pullinger and babel is a part of the electronic literature collection and is uniquely different from other pieces. Inanimate alice is the story of a young girl growing up in the early years of the 21st century. China takes the aspects of both electronically related noises and rambling musical scores to advance its narrators account.
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