Project Abeona is a collaborative storytelling experience in which participants engaged with various digital and online media to 'explore' Proxima b, an Earth-like exoplanet. This media combined factual and speculative elements to create a fictitious world nourished by the project's participants. 

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This all took place over two weeks on a private Facebook group curated specifically for the project. Here, members interacted with several 'missions' and 'announcements' that drove the story forward. Members had to work both as individuals and as a team by communicating through comments sections and posts, in order to resolve the presented challenges. These resolutions largely impacted the story's narrative direction - which followed a variety of story branches that I designed according to their engagement. Thus, participants had just as much a hand in the story's development as I did. 

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Essentially, this project is something akin to an online Dungeons & Dragons campaign run entirely through Facebook. Ironically, Facebook 'values' the privacy of private group members, so I can only include an invite link for others to join the group and view the project's development as a group member. Alternatively, here is a downloadable PDF report of the project's development, which includes all the finer details behind designing the narrative as well as various screenshots from the group itself. 

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Responsibilities: project management, project co-ordination, narrative design, group administration, story master. 

Laura and her friends have the best after school hangout: her grandmother's International Half-Museum. Filled to the brim with half-trinkets and artefacts, the whole place oozes with adventure.

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When Laura discovers that her grandmother has been kidnapped, she and her friends find themselves sucked into an epic tale of their own. With nothing but their wits and a trail of sticky notes, our band of heroes must traverse through one of history's greatest mysteries to find their own way home.  

The HMAS is a middle-grade children's novel that I both wrote and illustrated for my final Honours project. Overall, the whole project took three months to complete from early concepts, outlines and planning to a final 'dummy manuscript' formatted and typeset with Scribus. Although it's still very much a first draft, and in need of lots of revision, its near-30K words contribute to the longest piece of creative prose that I have ever written. 

The novel consists of 130 pages of original prose and a glossary; three fully rendered illustrations; two maps; two front covers; and various black and white diagrams - all fully formatted into a 6-inchx9-inch manuscript. You can have a look at the full manuscript here!