Came across this lovely bit of ad-hoc digital preservation recently and put together a post about it on MetaFilter. It's about how the earliest Choose-Your-Own-Adventure book was actually written...
Came across this lovely bit of ad-hoc digital preservation recently and put together a post about it on MetaFilter. It's about how the earliest Choose-Your-Own-Adventure book was actually written by two women fifty years before the format was popularized, was nearly lost to history, and then revived by a loose association of archivists, podcasters, and game designers. The creator of the Twine adaptation makes a surprise appearance, and there's an excellent recent comment tracing the history of interactive fiction even further back into the tradition of parlor games and other "nonsense generators."
Came across this lovely bit of ad-hoc digital preservation recently and put together a post about it on MetaFilter. It's about how the earliest Choose-Your-Own-Adventure book was actually written by two women fifty years before the format was popularized, was nearly lost to history, and then revived by a loose association of archivists, podcasters, and game designers. The creator of the Twine adaptation makes a surprise appearance, and there's an excellent recent comment tracing the history of interactive fiction even further back into the tradition of parlor games and other "nonsense generators."