Interactive fiction tells you the
beginning of a story, then puts you in charge of the rest. You can decide what
your character can do or go. This is the typical kind of interactive fiction,
but there are other forms where the reader must actually interact with the
piece itself. In these types of interactive fiction, the story has already been
created and the reader must just click through to see the ending. Some types of
this kind of interactive fiction are, Mr.
Plimpton’s Revenge, That Sweet
Old Etcetera, and The
Last Performance.
Mr.
Plimpton’s Revenge was created as a google map essay and is a funny and easy
to follow piece. Having the visual of where each new location makes it
easier to visualize where you are rather then the regular IF pieces that is all
texted based. This one in particular is non interactive piece with a lot of quirky ideas
involved. For example, Moore was on too many drugs to have a real conversation
and that he didn’t remember his encounter with Mr. Plimpton except when Moore
made a fool of himself. What I think makes this piece stand out is the way the
user has to interact with the piece and the visuals you get out of it.
Sweet Old
Etcetera is different then any piece I have seen. It involves clicking through
text and listening to the calm music. Figures can be made out of the words and
then you started to see a landscaped develop as you move along. I was curious
to see what Sweet Old Etcetera was that I find out it was actually a poem.
Lastly, The
Last Performance is probably the weirdest piece I have looked at so far in my experience
with interactive fiction. This piece is a steady beat that words dance around
the screen to. You can watch the words or you can also click on them as the
move around. The one thing I can say about this piece is the horse in the beginning
intro makes no sense to me at all.
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