I have one thing to say about my experience in Digital Narrative: it has ruined my life. Sounds harsh, I know, but the last twelve weeks have done something to me, exposed me to things I would rather have been kept in the dark.

Nightmares of Interactive Fictions, like Varicella , Internet Fictions, like 253 and JavaMoon, Digital Fictions like Victory Garden and Patchwork Girl, blogs about depressed Americans, and that haunting clip of the psycho Britney fan Chris Crocker, have me waking up during the night in a cold sweat, all those nodes, all those pathways, all that eyeliner...

Digital Narrative has changed my world, as a reader of comics and novels, I am now cursed to think of the medium and materiality a what I am reading, for example, there I was minding me own business, reading Justice League of America #11, written by Brad Meltzer, with art by Gene Ha, when BAM, materiality socked me one in the stomach, when the text of page sixteen rotated around, forcing me to turn the comic upside down, which was reflective of the content of the book, two of the lesser League members were trapped in a collapsed building, so confined, they were upside down, without realising it. Can't a guy read a comic in peace, it's got me worried about what comics and books I have read that were enhanced by its materiality without me realising it...

Video games are also forever tarnished, how am I supposed to enjoy a good game, such as Resident Evil 4, when I am realising how the story sequences and game play sequences are combining to tell a narrative, I can't, I am doomed to forever notice the two combining, to reveal a gripping, scary narrative like the one Resident Evil 4 is telling.

So thanks a lot Dave, thanks a lot Digital Narrative , you Ruined my life .