A Little Wander is a 2D interactive storybook game about a small child apprentice magician who continues forward after losing their magic. At each point in the journey, the player chooses between two possible paths, but neither route leads to a hard fail state or a correct answer. Instead, the game uses soft hand-drawn visuals, gentle detours, and deadpan narration to reframe minor failure as something recoverable, awkward, and strangely funny. Rather than punishing the player for choosing wrongly, A Little Wander asks what it might mean for failure to become part of the journey itself.
Haeun Chae is a BA Media student at UCL working across interactive storytelling, digital media, and visual design. Her practice explores how playful systems and soft visual language can reframe judgement, uncertainty, and failure as recoverable, comic experiences through interactive play.
