Interactivity sneaks into Literature

Previously most of the past class weeks we have been looking into interactive fiction in many game forms. As this course revolves around interactive fiction games, which computer gaming company, infocom, is a huge part of. Honestly Infocm was the catalyst of computer gaming and it hit it peaks in the 80's. It including elements like plot, setting, and the concept of protagonist v antagonist. It was the ground zero of the evolution of gaming. Players who were once readers, actually have the power to go on whatever path they choose. The ending is reflected through the players decisions. Anything the player does reflects the story. So the gaming element combines reading and interactivity. Games like Zork, Advent, and Deadline are a huge representation on the evolution of interactive fiction. This is the startup of the future of modern storytelling and modern gaming. Now continuing on with the term interactivity, it can come in different forms. Forms that are deemed digital literature makes the reader a part of the story and helps them pay more deeply attention. Instead of messages through text, its messages within hypertext or images that appear with a click on a mouse or the tap of a screen.

For instance recent work that we looked at was called "Mr. Plimptons revenge". It was formatted on google maps. This story was about how a student who escorted an editor named George Plimpton. This experience was a living hell for Mr. Plimpton and after that he wanted to forget who the narrator was. Throughout the story this is referenced and the key point to Plimptons revenge. Would recommend this to readers who are newly introduced to this genre of interactive fiction.  It was an interactive story as each location on the map is pin pointed. Once the location is clicked, a story emerges. Order seems to matter in this piece because the narrator tells the story in each location that is pin pointed first. Its fine to go to other of the locations, but the story follows along in a specific order. Some of the pin points can either can text alone or with images added. Stories like these can also be found on other platforms like twine and coding software's.