Little Jimmy, rentrant chez lui après un passage à la boutique de glaces, tombe par hasard dans le pays des merveilles d'un savant fou. Il y croise un casque expérimental de lecture de pensées, une machine à remonter le temps et un appareil de fin du monde. Ce comic interactif indie déploie une histoire palpitante mêlant mécanique quantique et quête de soi, à travers 3 856 possibilités narratives. Passez de case en case en suivant les chemins qui s'offrent à vous à chaque embranchement.
Cette adaptation transforme le comic original en un immense canevas infini où l'intrigue se déploie dans toutes les directions. Parcourez librement, sautez à la fin ou explorez à votre guise : pas de puzzles à résoudre, juste une narration à saisir. Parfait pour les amateurs de récits non linéaires et de navigation personnelle au cœur d'un comic digital.
On the way home from the ice cream store, little Jimmy discovers a mad scientist’s wonderland: an experimental mind-reading helmet, a time machine, and a doomsday device that can annihilate the human race. Which one would you like to test out first?
Meanwhile is a comic, but not an ordinary comic. Follow the paths from panel to panel. Where the path divides, you decide where to go next! A thrilling tale of quantum mechanics and self-discovery with 3,856 story possibilities.
This is a faithful adaptation of Jason Shiga’s classic choose-your-path comic book (originally published in hardcover in 2010). Our goal is not to make the comic “more interactive”, but to present the interactivity inherent in the story. We have not attempted to turn the book into an adventure game. There are no puzzles – except for your understanding of the story, which is entirely up to you. Just as in a physical book, you are free to browse around, or even jump straight to the end if you want.
The electronic medium allows us to improve on the book in one way: we can take advantage of Scott McCloud’s “infinite canvas” principle. Jason has reformatted the book’s pages and tabs into a single enormous spread, in which the story flows in every direction at once.
But what did happen to little Jimmy?
