the website of owen byron roberts aka owen ribbit

Refresh was originally published as an app for iPhone and Android, but it was taken down from the Apple store and then it didn't seem worth maintaining for Android.

It started as an Internet based project that was in reaction to some research I was doing on net art. It tells a story in a sort of maze, with buttons connecting pages in a narrative, while each page will time out at a certain point and Refresh the app back to the beginning, modeling video games that send the character to the beginning of a level each time they “die”. Through repeated readings of these pages the viewer pieces together the narrative and learns the various pathways from beginning to end.

You can play refresh on my itch.io page.