“Sweet Winds” is a fictional interactive horror narrative based on a recurring nightmare and a trip to visit family in the Greater Houston area of Texas, USA. The story is about suburbia, control, and the fear of the unknown.
The story is fully text-based. I believe that the lack of images and sound allows for my descriptions and dialogue to shine and for your imagination to thrive. Every choice branches and converges into paths that lead to five possible endings. You can navigate through the story by clicking on choices, indicated by blue coloured links in each scene. The arrows on the left side also allow you to go back if you change your mind or want to try a different path. Such is the beauty of fiction, it comes with an undo button.
The functionality of the story is inspired by vintage choose-your-own-adventure gamebooks and modern computer-based adventure games, with choices of dialogue and actions that affect how events unfold and other characters’ opinions of the player.