Incredibly Strange Games

A few years ago a friend and I were walking in the Mission district when we discovered what looked like a page from a Choose Your Own Adventure stenciled on the sidewalk. It was — an amazing location-based interactive narrative that told (maybe) a love story. The prose was a little purple for my low-brow tastes, but it was such an stunning effort that it really captured your imagination, and had you running all over the city trying to find the beginning, and then the end! You really needed to be at the locations to get the maximum effect of the story, and it’s all gone now (as far as I know), but some of the tiles are preserved on Flickr.