Anatomy of a Choice
- What happened before the choice?
- How is the possibility of choice conveyed?
- How did the user make the choice?
- What is the result of the choice?
- How will it affect future choices?
- How is is the result of the choice conveyed?
Known your medium!
You can’t write a book if
you have never read one.
How do you teach Non-Linear thought,
when all experience is linear?
Edgar Rice Burroughs
A Map
“I write to escape...
…to escape poverty.”
One Book - Many Readings
A Maze of Twisty Little Passages: Non-Linear Authorship in a Linear World
Jared Bendis
Creative New Media Officer
Case Western Reserve University
No...
Thank You!
Questions?
Play Zork
http://thcnet.net/error/index.php
Decision Tree
Choose your Own Adventure
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Sample Zork Commands
- N, W, E, W
- Up, Down
- Look, Inventory
- Take, Open, Drop, Move
- Read, Examine
- (Now discover more!)
Zork
Term Paper?
My First Computer