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Post by twillight on Sept 25, 2021 12:43:41 GMT
This is a graph of "A hit Nevében" (In the name of the faith), a hungarian gamebook.
The gamebook sacrifised the illusion of choice for the sake of a longer story.
Interrestingly, this is truly about the illusion, as if you strip the sections from eg. Fighting Fantasy which if you visit you die due to the lack of a key item, they'll look very similar.
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Post by tyrion on Sept 25, 2021 15:18:17 GMT
There are a lot of sections where there is no choices at all, they just lead to another section. I'm not keen on that aspect.
I think lone wolf would look like this, and some fighting fantasy (island of the lizard king, return to firetop mountain), but others would be a lot less linear (moonrunner, sword of the samurai).
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Post by twillight on Sept 27, 2021 11:59:25 GMT
There are a lot of sections where there is no choices at all, they just lead to another section. I'm not keen on that aspect. I think lone wolf would look like this, and some fighting fantasy (island of the lizard king, return to firetop mountain), but others would be a lot less linear (moonrunner, sword of the samurai). Dunno about Moonrunner, but Sword of the Samurai is pretty linear if I'm right, only hidden by the fact that it is actualy two linear book intervowen. The nonlinearity in there is only an illusion.
I'm tempted to make a graph of Deathtrap Dungeon, just to see to extent of such an illusion.
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EDIT:
Made a comparison-image of the section-net of Warlock of Firetop Mountain. The next couple of volumes have the problemm ore serious, and we are only talking about considering aquring the key items. By that factor, some FF-books don't have, or have minor problem with their structure, but at that point the audience is teached to go only for the One True Way. Here is the illustration.
As you can see, barely any choice is left for the player, a large portion of the book is there to fill up space. If you remove the part which you can not visit, like half the sections will be gone, sewerly lacking to the 400 sections it supposedly have. The compensation for this in the FFs is siply lying about having key items, which of course in WotFM won't even work, the key items being code-based.
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