Earlier work // occult interactive fiction

Ashgrove Ritual

A shelved experiment in document-led mystery: a locked-room death, a broken ritual circle, and records that refuse to tell the same story.

The Ashgrove Ritual suspect dossier and investigation interface
archived_evidence_index.txt

Read between the records

The Ashgrove Ritual explored investigation through case files, reports, timelines, journals, evidence, and suspect dossiers. The mystery lived in contradictions and in the details that official records almost managed to hide.

Its interface treated documents as the world itself: the player moved through the investigation by reading, connecting, and reconsidering what each source claimed.

What the experiment explored

  • Document-led investigation
  • Occult clues and ritual logic
  • Locked-room mystery structure
  • Case-file interface design