Udea & Seven Brothers

Udea and her seven brother is an interactive twine game. In this game I introduced elements of realism consistent with the cultural values of the Northern African society of the 15th century. This realism is translated in the insertion of important details overlooked and sometimes modified in Lung’s version of the fairytale. I changed the ending from a happy ending that usually characterizes fairytales to a more realistic ending that naturally stems from the journey of the main character. I used the stagey of dispersion and fragmentation to come up with different story plots and moral choices that the player has to make to move forward. The plots eventually combine in two endings one of them reflects the initial objective of the main character and the other the result of her overall journey experience. The Fairytale had underlying themes of slavery, violence, and murder. I tried to push that aspect of the story even further and added darker themes such as rape and murder.