Yesterday's chalk endeavor

[asakiyume]

Yesterday, rather than do a drawing, I had the idea to do a very simple choose-your-own-adventure story. The location is the paved path across the common space in this housing development.

The start point for the story was right in front of a bench that's right off the path. There were two choices: to the mountains



Or to the sea



(photographing these is hard at the time of day I drew them... major sun-dappling interference!)


If you choose "to the mountains," you next see this:



You now have two choices:



or



If you choose to help him...



If you run away...



That one is hard to read, not only because of the sun dapples but because of the leftover color on the path from my frog rider. It says, "You meet a mountain biker who tells you about some great trails. But it looks like it's going to rain."

You can choose to



or you can



If you go anyway...



after the "you decide to" is an arrow leading back up to the "go home" choice.

At the "go home" choice it says





You now must choose a more specific destination:



(In case it's hard to read, it says "pirate cove" or "sunset beach")

If you choose pirate cove, predictably ...



In that photo you can see that one of the choices is to fight them--the other is to flee to sunset beach, and from there you follow the sunset beach thread. But what if you fight them?



But what if you went to sunset beach in the first place? Well by then I was running out of patience, so...





I have NO IDEA how this has been received. A lot of parents come to the common with kids too young for it, but there are other kids who are old enough to read it on their own who might enjoy it, and maybe some parents will get a kick out of it--I hope so anyway.

Comments

[ellenmillion]

This is AMAZING! I hope they loved it!

[asakiyume]

I hope so! I might wander over and see if anyone's around.

[rimturse]

What a fun idea! :)

[asakiyume]

Thank you!

[queenoftheskies]

This is so FUN!

[asakiyume]

It was definitely fun to make!

[pameladean]

Wow, that looks like a lot of work, but what fun too! I'd have been delighted if I'd come across it, so I'm sure some other people would too.

As a kid, my peak enjoyment of it would have come when I was about eleven. I would have been SO THRILLED.

P.

[asakiyume]

Eleven (and twelve) are such great ages, aren't they? I loved *being* that age. I think we have some kids that age in the neighborhood :-)

[mallorys_camera]

Very, very cool!

[asakiyume]

Thankee!

[wayfaringwordhack]

WHat a terrific idea! I hope some people get a kick out of playing it. :D *hugs for ingenuity and action!*

[asakiyume]

*hugging you back*

I hope so! I had fun.

[sartorias]

I would have LOVED that as a kid! Heck, I would now!!!

[asakiyume]

Hahaha! Yay! I'm really glad ^_^

[missroserose]

Definitely hoping that it was well received. It was certainly fun to read about. <3

[asakiyume]

In the end, I didn't make it out yesterday afternoon/evening to find out, so I'll just bask in the safety of its good reception here.

[kore]

This is AWESOME. I love that you photographed it all!

[asakiyume]

Hahaha, yeah, I like having a record.

[sovay]

I have NO IDEA how this has been received.

I hope people love it! It's magnificent!

[asakiyume]

Thank you! I hope so.

[ivy]

I AM A PIRATE QUEEN! I mean, that's an interesting and fun innovation and I bet some kids enjoyed it. And some adults. [grin]

[asakiyume]

Hahaha, yeah; it was surprisingly hard to come up with scenarios and endings that were both innocuous enough not to potentially alarm either parents or kids, and yet also *fun* for kids, and also not too judgmental/preachy, and yet also not completely without consequences for actions (now I'm revealing that I thought about this way longer than is cool).

[cmcmck]

Since you mention that sort of thing!

[asakiyume]

Those definitely promise to lead to adventures!

[amaebi]

A nice gift to the world.

[asakiyume]

Thanks; that's what I'm trying to do in a small way.

[athenais]

It's super great! I love it, so glad you did it. Your handwriting is excellent.

[asakiyume]

Thank you! It was surprisingly (to me anyway) hard to write legibly, so that's great to hear.