Aurangabad / Daulatabad Fort / Digital storytelling
TheImpregnableIdiot
A class field visit became a slapstick scroll comic about an architect, an impossible fort, and the defenses that refuse to behave.
11
wide pages
20
story beats
1
fort route
Project brief
Heritage study as a comic built for sideways motion.
The project started on-site at Daulatabad Fort with the class documenting the texture, route, scale, and strangeness of the place. Instead of treating the fort as a static heritage subject, I built a comic premise around an architect forced to survive his own defensive masterpiece.
The final narrative uses a long horizontal reading format so the viewer moves through the fort like a sequence of gates, corridors, traps, and reveals. The result sits between travel documentation, historical imagination, slapstick, and digital publication design.
Class visit to Daulatabad Fort
Satirical premise from real defenses
Scripted as a moving corridor of gags
Finished as a horizontal digital comic
Horizontal comic
The fort, rebuilt as a scroll.
Making the narrative
A fort visit, pushed until it became a sequence of gags.
01
Field Visit
The page begins with the actual site visit: scale, gates, dark passage, moat systems, and all the tiny details that make the fort feel theatrical.
02
Story Hook
I turned the fort into a comedy engine: an architect returns for forgotten documents and gets trapped inside the defenses he designed.
03
Script
The PDF maps the rhythm of the comic as one long route, with each obstacle becoming a beat in the reader's sideways movement.
04
Scroll Comic
The final pages preserve that movement as wide strips, so the reader advances through the fort instead of flipping through a flat gallery.
Covers and script
Built like a small digital publication, not just a comic dump.
The cover system frames the work as a complete piece, while the script keeps the panel logic visible: premise, traversal, obstacle, punchline, and release.
Format
Horizontal scroll
Pages
11
Category
Publication / Digital Storytelling
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