Casey linked to a very interesting, very fun hypertext piece on interactive fiction that she composed, I’m guessing, for an Interactive Narrative course. I do hope she doesn’t mind my linking to it.
As a veteran MUSHer and, before that, a pretty avid IF player, I’ve always been amazed at the possibilities–and frustrations–of the medium. Reading is my number one pastime, followed only marginally by gaming, and the combination of the two is sometimes entertaining, sometimes alien, and always an experience. The desires to tell a story or to be involved in a story are really one in the same, I think, and IF allows a passive action that’s really quite intriguing. Add in a bunch of other participants and you’ve really got something going.
This is something I’d really like to explore. I know it’s been done before, by better writers than myself, but it’s worth a shot.
If you’re interested in IF, click here and here and here. For the punk rock crowd, here’s ex-Adbusters editor and author of Flyboy Action Figure Comes with Gasmask, Jim Munroe, and his attempt at IF.
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