Umar’s Sketchblog

  • Flashback with characters father

    Since a lot of people haven’t seen the bear (I recommend it, it is on disney+) this scene is what I imagine the flash backs would feel like. How I am going to make it using just text well I am not sure, but I do need to find how to before wednesday :). The…

  • Interactive Story Proposal

    It is often thought that connections are formed over a long period, through hardships and situations that both parties have experienced, but I think his not true. The core concept of my story is to show that meaningful connections can be formed over a short period. With this story, I am showing that you do…

  • Interactive story telling in games

    Before I took this course, if I I was asked what an interactive story was, I would only think of just plot points/ decisions that affected the end of the game, and if it did not affect the game, then it did not matter. But now I have found a new respect for all forms…

  • Using Interactivity to “fix” stories

    SPOILERS AHEAD FOR CHAINSAW MAN!!! While recently rereading the manga(comic?) chainsaw man by Tatsuki Fujimoto, because the second part just started, I came across a plot point where a character made a choice that affected the whole story, but I could not stop thinking to my self, what if he had made a different choice,…

  • Revisiting pigeon verse (Embracing the pigeon)

    During the planning period of the IFstravaganza, I had a lot of ideas for my part of the story, where I wanted to explore what it meant to be human, and I wanted to be all philosophical, but I found out I didn’t have the writing skills for that, then I decided I wanted to…