Meanwhile: Interactive Comic: Navigate a Labyrinth of Choice and Quantum Chaos

Name: Meanwhile: Interactive Comic
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Rating: 4.58 (100 reviews)

Step into Jason Shiga’s award-winning world of mad science and time travel. Explore thousands of paths across an infinite digital canvas where every decision leads to discovery or total doomsday.

Publisher

Andrew Plotkin

Explore Every Path

Discover the interface used by 191K+ users.

A digital comic interface showing interconnected panels where the main character must choose between chocolate and vanilla ice cream

The title screen of Meanwhile: An Interactive Comic by Jason Shiga, showing a prompt to begin the story and bottom navigation buttons.

A panel from the Meanwhile interactive comic where the player chooses between different inventions to progress the story

A flowchart showing the history of narrative choices and paths in the Meanwhile interactive comic.

A bird's eye view of the complex branching story map and panels in Meanwhile Interactive Comic.

A Narrative Labyrinth Like No Other

The tools that make this app stand out, trusted by 191K+ users.

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3,856 Paths to Discovery

Experience a narrative engine where every choice ripples through time. From cosmic success to dark doomsday disasters, your agency is absolute.

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Seamless Infinite Canvas

Forget flipping pages. Navigate a sprawling, interconnected map of panels via a custom-built zoomable engine designed for tactile exploration.

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Quantum-Powered Storytelling

Engage with mind-reading helmets and time travel paradoxes. It is a playful playground for the analytically curious and indie comic fans alike.

About the app

Everything you need to know about Meanwhile: Interactive Comic.

Description

MEANWHILE: an interactive comic by Jason Shiga On the way home from the ice cream store, little Jimmy discovers a mad scientist’s wonderland: an experimental mind-reading helmet, a time machine, and a doomsday device that can annihilate the human race. Which one would you like to test out first? MEANWHILE is not an ordinary comic. YOU make the choices that determine how the story unfolds. MEANWHILE splits off into thousands of different adventures. Most will end in DOOM and DISASTER. Only one path will lead you to happiness and success. - A thrilling adventure of quantum physics, self-discovery, and kids getting into trouble. (We mentioned the doomsday device, right?) - Completely redesigned by the author for an infinite scrollable canvas. - Full audio accessibility with VoiceOver; every panel and choice can be spoken.

Latest Version

1.7.8

Size

55.4 MB

First Released

Nov 8, 2011

Will You Save the World or Trigger Doomsday?

Join thousands of logical explorers navigating Jason Shiga’s mind-bending interactive masterpiece. Download Meanwhile today and choose your first path through the infinite canvas.

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