Interactive fiction often connotes narratives that play more like games than do other types of interactive stories. Like the Lone Wolf book series, it blurs the distinction between e-book and game. You might recall some of the text-based adventures such as Zork that were popular in the 1980s. You get a few paragraphs describing the situation you are in as the protagonist, and then you type a command telling the computer what you intend to do. Many of these story-games involve moving between various locations within the narrative world, and sometimes you have to collect items or clues and then return to previously visited locations in order to solve a puzzle or resolve some issue there.
Hi HyperRitual,
excellent presentation so far. I think that the figure from Matthew Reinhart & Robert Sabuda’s Encyclopaedia Mythologica volume, Dragons & Monsters, is the Medusa and not the Sphinx. I’m not 100% certain about this, but I can deduct it from her snakey hair.
Keep up with the great work,
Plethon.
Hi, Nick. Thanks for taking time to check out my work. Look at the lower-right corner of the book; that is the transition I am referring to in the speech/text. :-)
Right, I get it now, thank you for pointing it out. I have finished watching the slide show and I find it brilliant. It does motivate to go out and start doing, creating, interacting… Please produce more work like this, we’re so thirsty for this kind of quality.
Cheers, man!