Occasionally talk on rec.arts.int-fiction turns to more speculative topics of interactive fiction. These discussions, while not of immediate use to the game designer, are often of interest in and of themselves.
- Talk about simulations
- A discussion of simulations and how they apply to interactive fiction.
- Simulations versus pre-planned plots
- A reply to those who say simulations can't make good IF.
- Fun versus simulation
- At what point do elements of simulation make IF cease to be fun?
- Attitudes to playing
- Musings on everything from how people play IF to whether a storyline is required in IF.
- Attitudes to playing
- A continuation of the above thread.
- Counting story-plots
- A preliminary method for counting the number of possible plots.
- IF as literature
- Comparing IF to literature.
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