Part III. Evolutionary Strategies
Most Attempts At Interactive storytelling are evolutionary in style; they are attempts to extend existing technologies to cover interactive storytelling. Such strategies work about as well as airplanes that used bird technology to make flapping-wing contraptions.
Chapter 8: The first thing interactive storytelling beginners try is a branching tree. It never works. Here’s why it never works.
Chapter 9: A time-honored and highly developed genre, interactive fiction faces fundamental obstacles that prevent it from having much chance at generating true interactive storytelling.
Chapter 10: Role-playing games are a popular and rich genre, but they’re stuck in a rut that they just can’t seem to climb out of.
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