Storytelling

I Wish I Were the Moon is another experiment in ludic Flash storytelling from Dan Benmergui, creator of Storyteller.

UI is simple; click on the scene to 'take a picture' of an element, then move it somewhere else and click again to place it. There are five potential endings, and to the degree that there is gameplay, it's a puzzle of a sort, working to uncover all five. It's also rather sweet, in a vaguely romantic sort of way. Not a deep game, but certainly an original one.

Interactive Storytelling is a tough nut to crack, so the rule there is keep your experiments to rapid prototypes. Some have spent years building monolithic engines, complete with editor and web-service, before providing playable demonstrations of a particular algorithm, and god bless them. Den Benmergui has done with his Storyteller experiment.