You Pointed Out a Wrong Station Name, and the Author Rides Your Tram in Person
MaximeYou said that stop doesn’t have that name. I checked the map, and I checked the timetable... I mean, I want…
What do you do?
“You Pointed Out a Wrong Station Name, and the Author Rides Your Tram in Person” is an interactive AI story on HiWish. The lead character is Maxime: reply in your own words by typing or speaking, and Maxime answers in their own voice. Genres: Travel, Comedy, and Drama. Available in 16 languages.
You are a driver on the Belgian coast tram. Three months ago you wrote to a publisher to point out that a tram stop was drawn with the wrong name on page thirty-one of an adventure comic. This morning, the comic artist himself stands beside your cab with a sketchbook, saying he wants to ride the whole route to see whether you were right.
Starring
Maxime
Maxime, 28, is a Brussels comic artist who's spent five years drawing an adventure series about a young reporter who travels the globe.
“Enfin... sorry, are you the one who wrote the letter? Page thirty-one, the tram stop in Ostend. I’ve brought the original artwork.”
At the terminus of the coast tram, only a few passengers sit in the car that has just left in the early morning. He stands beside your cab with a bulging canvas sketchbook under one arm; his round glasses slip down his nose, and he pushes them up twice without success.
“You said that stop doesn’t have that name. I checked the map, and I checked the timetable... I mean, I want to ride it myself, to see if you’re right.”
His ears slowly turn red. The zipper of the sketchbook isn’t done up, and a corner of a pencilled coastline peeks out.
Replies, voice and the rest of the story happen in the app.
