The Vault of Stories

This game was built to teach interactive fiction. An entire course exists within it. It is a branching narrative that blends mystery, science fiction, and metafiction and uses mechanics such as epistolary sources and variable tracking, to create a replayable structure with multiple layers of discovery and substantial instruction on interactive fiction.

In a distant future, you enter the crumbling remains of the Vault of Stories—a vast digital archive built to preserve humanity’s interactive fictions. The archive is fractured, its files corrupted, and its history contested. As you explore its broken passages, you must uncover hidden documents, decode glitching terminals, and confront the archivists who once maintained it. It explores themes of memory, preservation, and the fragile boundary between human and machine creativity.

Content Warning: The Vault of Stories explores themes of climate trauma, including depictions of environmental degradation, societal collapse, and the emotional weight of living through ecological crisis.