Borrow the principle.
These are design references, not sources for the stories. The original research opened and captured all five sites. The playable cover borrows control proximity, distinct story treatments and comfortable reading rhythm.
One obvious thing to do
Nicky Case’s The Evolution of Trust introduces an idea, then gives you a clear Play button. Here, the featured story offers an optional edit with a visible consequence. Reading is always available without playing. The research covered the opening and post-Play introduction, not the complete game.
The Evolution of TrustPut the change where you can see it
Bartosz Ciechanowski’s explanations keep manipulation and consequence together. The labels, lines and receipts in this notebook should change within the same view as their controls. These are illustrative examples, not reconstructions of historical events.
Mechanical WatchA title and a picture, not a dossier
Panic’s blog makes a post legible before it asks you to read it. The notebook gives its stories different forms: an editable cover, a record-retention example and an illustrated essay entry. The illustrations are the existing Clawbotomy cast, not copied reference artwork.
Panic BlogAlso studied
Craig Mod’s essay informed comfortable reading measure. The Pudding’s process article informed the story-first approach. Neither is a reason to add more framing ahead of the stories. The Pudding research covered a process article, not a complete interactive essay.
Craig Mod’s Fast SoftwareThe Pudding’s process