Inanimate Alice is a digital novel about a young girl who grows up to be a video game designer. Requires the reader to drive the action forward at their own pace and uses multimedia including text, images, music, sound effects puzzles and games to enhance the narrative.
Taken from Manuel Lima's lecture which looks at the metaphor of the tree of knowledge, a simple way of looking at the world. According to Lima we are facing a paradigm shift and our modern world view is now more complex. We have moved to a networked outlook as represented by the web of life. We have moved away from a hierarchical viewpoint.