So for my memoir I wanted to do something that reflected what I cherish the most; my friends, music and games. Gaming is actually a huge part because I practically grew up surrounded by games (like card games, board games, then finally, computer games and it went up from there, or down). Games are what I experience with my friends to have a blast. For the summer actually, all we did was go out to eat, hang out or just play games at home (because who wants to go out in the scorching sun? – unless it’s for food). With the aspect of music, I just really love music for how it affects my emotions. I usually just listen to chill jams, because the fact is it gets you in the zone. Seriously, why consume drugs and damage your health when you can just damage your ears instead? I’d say that’s a good trade-off.

Onto the actual topic here, I wanted to incoporate games (specifically story-telling because that’s what we were doing in seminar as well), music and friendship. This was perfect because the song artist, in love with a ghost, created characters from his songs, which are songs that I enjoy listening to when going to bed – random fun fact. I was inspired to write a story with these characters, but still closely following the timeline ghost set up. To be more informative, a lot of story-telling games these days have different options you chose that affect your ending. One game that comes to mind immediately is the Telltale series, The Wolf Among Us. So there’s good endings, bad endings and the “best ending” (in quotations because sometimes this isn’t the case and you end being more confused than settled). The concept I was going for was suppose to match the fun little pathways you can go through when clicking on folders on a computer. There was a bunch of folders on this random desktop that kept enticing me to go on and in the end it was the most anti-climatic ending ever. I was pretty disappointed, but also kind of accomplished that I finally made it to the end (even if it wasn’t a good ending). My flag was done in a more traditional way, not only because I have no idea how to code, but I wanted my memoir to be something people could pick up with their hands like a little comic book. Along with the folders, different music would be played to set atmosphere.

Originally (and the second picture shows this), I was going to do something with tarot cards with a fortune teller origami, so those were little notes that I would write on the flaps of the fortune teller. It’s also why I decided to draw, instead, small character cards as an “introduction”.