Well of Information is a student project made with the intention of exploring the blogging format as a character building tool, particularly its place in video game storytelling. I wanted to look at how something as mundane as a book review could tell you a lot about a person's life and personality. With the rise of games like Hypnospace Outlaw or Home Safety Hotline that are played entirely through a fictional computer, I think there's great opportunity for using the more expressive elements of online life to share information with the player about characters in the game world. Beck is not a real person, nor was she inspired by a single real person. She's rather an amalgamation of what I've observed trawling through old blogs from the 2000s and 2010s over the years brought together into one fake woman. Her love of restaurants and hotels, especially those in dire straits, was inspired by my own love of the Six Flags amusement parks, otherwise her interests were largely drawn from what I observed to be popular among people interested in the blogging and indie-web communities.
Background photo was taken by me. Title font "New Rocker" courtesy of Google Fonts.