STORYSPACE & NEW MEDIA: Combining Purpose
This idea has been tossed around before, and I was thinking about it again tonight, more than a combination of visuals and audio with the Storyspace setup, but an infusion of IF as well. Steve Ersinghaus and I sort of touched on it a while back, and he’s been super busy and I’ve been just starting to learn the hypertext medium and the way it can change the development of narrative.
What I’d like to learn and learn in a helluva hurry, is the workings of IF. It is text based, it is choice-oriented or even dependent upon it, and the difference being clicking on a piece of text to proceed, or typing words to find the right one that will carry you further. Both hypertext and IF required careful planning to allow for all types of readers and all possible choices of path.
What intrigues me as well is the ‘adventure’ theme of IF, and while hypertext also includes some element of adventure, it may get away with less action-packed plotting, focusing on depth of event, character, or idea instead. I’d like to try something in Storyspace with the notion though.
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