{
  "schemaVersion": 2,
  "id": "83",
  "slug": "forking-edition",
  "name": "Forking Edition",
  "brand": "The room that remembers / A branching novella",
  "family": "Avant-garde & experimental",
  "status": "ready",
  "thesis": "The sentence itself can be a doorway into another reading.",
  "suitableFor": [
    "Experimental publishing",
    "Art exhibition",
    "Cultural storytelling"
  ],
  "character": "Experimental",
  "traits": {
    "composition": "A nearly bare cream page carries large literary prose. Underlined branching phrases, indentation and a small path trace do the work of a navigation system.",
    "navigation": "Choose phrases, revisit a fork, reach an ending and inspect the reading path",
    "typography": "Libre Baskerville / DM Sans",
    "density": "Medium",
    "imagery": "Original SVG and CSS compositions",
    "surface": "A continuous browser-sized composition",
    "motion": "Optional"
  },
  "effort": "High",
  "definingFeatures": [
    "Inline branching prose",
    "Reversible reading path",
    "Three endings"
  ],
  "adaptableChoices": [
    "Subject and original writing",
    "Palette and equivalent licensed typography",
    "Scale and number of content units"
  ],
  "discovery": {
    "industries": [
      "Arts",
      "Culture",
      "Experimental publishing"
    ],
    "visitorGoals": [
      "Explore a non-linear story"
    ],
    "conversionActions": [
      "Assemble a reading collection"
    ],
    "siteSize": "Interactive publication",
    "interactionTypes": [
      "Inline branching prose",
      "Reversible reading path",
      "Three endings"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "avant garde",
      "experimental",
      "unconventional navigation",
      "Inline branching prose",
      "Reversible reading path",
      "Three endings"
    ]
  },
  "patterns": [
    "Inline branching prose",
    "Reversible reading path",
    "Three endings"
  ],
  "entryRoute": "/preview/83-forking-edition/start",
  "states": [
    {
      "key": "passage",
      "label": "An opened passage",
      "route": "/preview/83-forking-edition/passage"
    },
    {
      "key": "path",
      "label": "Your reading path",
      "route": "/preview/83-forking-edition/path"
    }
  ],
  "referenceImages": [
    {
      "file": "/previews/83/desktop.jpg",
      "url": "https://drew-site-design-library.t3.tigrisfiles.io/references/83/d067839a1f671e1f-desktop.jpg",
      "route": "/preview/83-forking-edition/start",
      "viewport": {
        "width": 1440,
        "height": 1000
      },
      "state": "start",
      "fixture": "deterministic-2026-11-v1",
      "sourceRevision": "sha256:4377137e9292c9787b1fc4c503cca3632fdaab2da7cb30103f5e839a3a9336a0",
      "sha256": "d067839a1f671e1fbd31039300cfeb74eeb60d4377228787579d4eba121611e6",
      "fullPage": false
    },
    {
      "file": "/previews/83/mobile.jpg",
      "url": "https://drew-site-design-library.t3.tigrisfiles.io/references/83/9bd5ad1f80731b2d-mobile.jpg",
      "route": "/preview/83-forking-edition/start",
      "viewport": {
        "width": 390,
        "height": 844
      },
      "state": "start",
      "fixture": "deterministic-2026-11-v1",
      "sourceRevision": "sha256:4377137e9292c9787b1fc4c503cca3632fdaab2da7cb30103f5e839a3a9336a0",
      "sha256": "9bd5ad1f80731b2d1e3c81e67438dd9173c5cbc027554429e54661dc295d2746",
      "fullPage": false
    },
    {
      "file": "/previews/83/detail.jpg",
      "url": "https://drew-site-design-library.t3.tigrisfiles.io/references/83/92ff2e2a0a933459-detail.jpg",
      "route": "/preview/83-forking-edition/passage",
      "viewport": {
        "width": 1440,
        "height": 1000
      },
      "state": "passage",
      "fixture": "deterministic-2026-11-v1",
      "sourceRevision": "sha256:4377137e9292c9787b1fc4c503cca3632fdaab2da7cb30103f5e839a3a9336a0",
      "sha256": "92ff2e2a0a933459b466bbdf917439226a35364a45cac1c0a470688944a161d2",
      "fullPage": false
    },
    {
      "file": "/previews/83/full-page.jpg",
      "url": "https://drew-site-design-library.t3.tigrisfiles.io/references/83/f29c475e8ceec915-full-page.jpg",
      "route": "/preview/83-forking-edition/start",
      "viewport": {
        "width": 1440,
        "height": 1000
      },
      "state": "start",
      "fixture": "deterministic-2026-11-v1",
      "sourceRevision": "sha256:4377137e9292c9787b1fc4c503cca3632fdaab2da7cb30103f5e839a3a9336a0",
      "sha256": "f29c475e8ceec9153b5819e0f3fc486a112108b7b3b708e68c09a69342a6b466",
      "fullPage": true
    }
  ],
  "sourcePath": "src/designs/83-forking-edition",
  "neighbours": [
    "07",
    "14"
  ],
  "researchSources": [
    {
      "title": "Typatone",
      "url": "https://typatone.com/"
    },
    {
      "title": "Conditional Design manifesto",
      "url": "https://conditionaldesign.org/manifesto/"
    }
  ],
  "palette": {
    "page": "#f7f4ec",
    "ink": "#232b28",
    "accent": "#446c56",
    "surface": "#f7f4ec"
  },
  "fonts": [
    "Libre Baskerville",
    "DM Sans"
  ],
  "brief": "**Idea.** The sentence itself can be a doorway into another reading.\n\n**Composition.** A nearly bare cream page carries large literary prose. Underlined branching phrases, indentation and a small path trace do the work of a navigation system.\n\n**Navigation and complete example.** Read a complete miniature branching novella: three opening choices lead through six passages to three distinct endings. Undo a choice or review the route without losing your place.\n\n**Responsive and inclusive behaviour.** Prose keeps a comfortable line length and inline choices wrap naturally. A visible back action complements the embedded links. All controls are native buttons or labelled inputs. Movement is discretionary, no sound starts automatically, reduced-motion preferences remove transitions, and a direct index exposes the same content.\n\n**Adaptation.** Write choices as part of the voice, and make every branch pay off in content. Avoid turning the story into a survey or a card-based wizard. Retain the relationship between navigation and content. Do not reduce the reference to a generic hero followed by interchangeable cards.\n\n**Research.** [Typatone](https://typatone.com/); [Conditional Design manifesto](https://conditionaldesign.org/manifesto/). These are conceptual precedents, not copied artwork, source code, branding or text. All diagrams and sample writing in this specimen are original, fictional material.",
  "scope": "Complete visual reference with deterministic local interactions and fictional content; no production backend.",
  "downloadUrl": "/downloads/83-forking-edition.zip"
}