Re: OT: nonlinear fiction -- was: Re: Non-linear full-2d writing (again)

On 1/28/06, John Vertical <johnvertical@...> wrote:
> Would this be close to what you're after now?
> http://www.scottmccloud.com/comics/carl/3b/cyoc.html
Hehe. Neat.

What bothers me about it though is that, other than very small
exceptions (e.g. the devil in the bottom middle), that's a
one-directional tree rather than a network.

And that it is in fact highly directional (down-right-wards).

It's getting closer though. It does have a little bit of
cleverness-via-arrangment going on - though again most of it is
primarily through straight-line-through humor / story in the usual way
(for any particular path you take). And it's not mutually compatible -
you can't actually multiple-traverse and have it still be coherent;
that's only possible as a meta thing about the storyline itself.

 - Sai