ITML is a geolocative storytelling piece created using Twine as part of my PhD work.
During July-September 2019, a low-tech AR digital prototype called “In the Mood for Love” (ITML) was developed using Twine – a simple, low-tech, free and open-source tool for making interactive fiction in the form of web pages. The artefact uses the author’s experience of a romantic crush as a decoy to discuss personal experiences of anxiety and gender-based violence (GBV). Locations selected were around the local university campus and the adjacent botanical gardens; the theme of anxiety was centred around the university campus whereas the gardens carried themes of GBV. The development of the artefact involved mapping locations and their coordinates, going to the locations to connect personal experiences, and creating content. The artefact users were presented with different choices in the narrative which led them to different locations.