17776

Poynter
Robots, football and 2.3 million pageviews
Two things that make “17776” so immersive and engaging are its infinite scroll and dynamic loading aspects. Each installment of the storyline is contained on one web page, with new graphics, videos and GIFs loading in real-time as you scroll, à la “Snow Fall” by The New York Times.

“They’re not being shoved down the well, they’re crawling down it,” Bois said. “By scrolling they’re doing work by having to access it...I hope with that ownership that people are convinced to keep on going.”
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Quartz
A dazzling piece of experimental fiction is serialized on a sports site
It’s 15,759 years in the future, and nobody dies—or is born—anymore. Instead the human race has reached a weird utopian equilibrium in which one way to self-entertain is epically long, large football games.

The interactive story, which you read by scrolling through dense images and colored dialog with occasional YouTube interludes, debuted on July 5...What’s apparent so far is that the protagonist is Nine, a space probe that has just become conscious while floating in space.

So far the story is funny and really works. The interactive elements are minimal, and the sidebars don’t take the reader too far away from the story... pulling even this non-sports fan along.
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