WRITTEN

WRITTEN is a looping philosophical interactive piece where you are given 500 words to define yourself, your life, your beginning and your end. In a completely white plane, stretching indefinitely, you have 500 words to make a mark, or disappear without a trace. To fight your fate or accept it. To leave unfinished or find comfort in knowing yourself.

This was both comforting and gave me an existential crisis. I loved the meta aspect of flipping the 500-word restriction onto the player, honestly genius. And there are so many ways of interpreting the piece itself: are we just the pen running through a blank page, with space for only 500 words before a new one is given? Talking to some sort of Death Administrator with limited time/energy to give you before you're filed away? A meeting with the Fates to define how your life will be before you're sent down to actually live it?

And why so little words? Why is a life defined by only 500 words? How can you describe or quantify a whole person with so little?