https://nickm.com/post Nick Montfort Mon, 16 May 2011 23:37:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://nickm.com/post/wp-content/stuff/cropped-favicon-32x32.png https://nickm.com/post 32 32 https://nickm.com/post/2011/05/choose-your-own-monster/ https://nickm.com/post/2011/05/choose-your-own-monster/#respond Mon, 16 May 2011 23:36:38 +0000 http://nickm.com/post/?p=1671 Continue reading "Choose Your Own Monster"

]]> Since I mentioned some funny CYOA-like smut that has recently issued from the IF community, I’ll also suggest a less lewd piece of branching narrative, one which allows the reader to make choices early in the text and in the story’s past: Andrew Plotkin’s The Matter of the Monster. Perhaps it’s a case of the folktale wagging the dog – in any case, it’s brightly written, cleverly put together, and worth reading.

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