As of yet, I haven't carried out as much experimentation as I would have liked (in terms of writing exercises and tasks). But there has still been experimentation occurring throughout the project. Some of this experimentation is listed on other pages of my blog, but I decided to go over some of the main areas on it's own page, just in case it's missed.

Narrative Experimentation
The very first section of experimentation occurred when I was deciding on the type of narrative the story would make use of. During one of the first sections of research for the project, I researched into some different types of narrative I could be used for the games story, to have an idea of the different structures available but to also see what I felt would be more effective to use.

Originally I wanted to go with a type of branching narrative as those types of narrative usually give the player a choice as to what they do, which can impact the story. However, I knew that the more the narrative would branch, the more difficult of a task writing the story would become, so I decided if I was to use branching narrative, I would make use of 'limited branching', where the player is given options to give the impression that they're choices are impacting the game/story, but in reality, the impact isn't as much as you'd originally think (e.g. Being asked to save one of two characters, leading the other to dying. This would create a change for a part of the game as you decided to save one character, but then not too long after this either character you saved would die anyway and once again return the story, no matter the option picked, to the same single narrative route).

Another idea I liked at the time was 'fractured narrative'. This narrative being where the events of a story are shown in a non-linear order, with the story making use of dreams and flashbacks.
I decided to bear this structure in mind when developing my story, as I felt that the inclusion of flashbacks could be an effective point of the story to explain and develop some events that had happened (such as, in the case of my concept, the disappearance of the protagonist's father).

The narrative structure I decided upon was actually a mix of two, chronological linear narrative (with no branching), and nodal narrative.
I decided this as I felt it was more fitting for the game, but also more fitting for me as a writer since it wouldn't be as difficult as some of the other narratives (being important since I in terms of  creative writing/story writing I'm still very much a beginner) and due to it most likely requiring less time than the other narratives, giving me the time to complete my other tasks. 

By the point of developing the basic concept for my story, I had already decided on the type of narrative I would be using. But I still decided to go back and see if any other narratives would have worked, or how my story could change by using them.

When experimenting with 'limited branching' I found that there could be some areas of my game where the player is given an option at certain points of the story. Throughout my story, there are times when there's a new character introduced (almost one new crew member per level). A few of these character only join the crew after being helped by the player, so my trail of thought in terms of this was giving the player an option to help them or not. However, my first idea for this was to make it so the player could return to the character at any point in time to help  them, leading to them joining, but then gave more of an impression of a side quest or mission (which could still work).
However, upon experimenting, I decided it would be best if the man joined the crew by the time the player left the island, no matter which option was picked.