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CYOA Design, Choices, Patterns and Bottlenecks

23 June 2024 at 08:17
Choice inflection points in gamebooks/interactive fiction/CYOA come in many varieties. There a few standard storyline options in "finite-state" interactive fiction, where you don't keep track of changing statistics, or otherwise do anything other than make choices. Branches and bottlenecks are fundamental to choice paths in these things. Note that spin-off interactive fictions are sometimes belabored with extraneous factors that influence the work's structure. Aspects of making interactive fiction have appeared on the site before (green, greener; blue; bluer).

The only recording of Shirley Jackson

22 June 2024 at 07:08
"It is possible, thanks to the magic of the internet. In 1960, five years before her death, Shirley Jackson recorded readings of "The Lottery" and "The Daemon Lover" for an outfit called Folkways Recordsβ€”the only time we know of that she ever recorded performances of her own work."
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