Decimal’s second collaboration with Long Lead, a story studio focused on finding, funding, producing, and publishing original, in-depth journalism, chronicles the tales of COVID-skeptics resisting Germany’s public health measures and ultimately storming the Reichstag in Berlin in August of 2020.

The story of that day and its consequences — told through Darren Loucaides’ immersive reporting and haunting illustrations by Jun Cen, is presented in a captivating 3D experience that captures the true tale of misinformation, its causes and effects.

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Using WebGL, we designed an immersive experience intended to make users lose their sense of time and space. The 3-D spiral conveys how disorienting the stories are and how easily the subjects fall into chaos. To reorient the reader, we provided color coding to identify the stories of the two main characters.

Beyond navigating the story using the main spiral, we also designed an index where dots act as windows into different parts of the story. This allows readers to see a content overview as well as access the distinct, but connected, parts of the story.