English 1028F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Interactive Fiction, Multilinear Map, Rhizome
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The narrator focuses on the top-down organization. Certain number of results occur, what happens if you don"t have this story falls apart. The paradox is created by the effort to integrate the unpredictable bottom-up input of the used into a sequence of events that fulfills the conditions of narratively conditions that presuppose a top-down design. The more story you have, the less interactivity you have. On one hand author seeks control over the direction of a narrative in order to give it a satisfactory structure. On the other hand a participating used demands the autonomy to act and react without explicit authorial constraint. Ryan: narrative meaning presupposes the linearity and unidirectional of time, logic and causality, while a system of choices involves a nonlinear or multilinear branching structure, such as a tree, rhizome or a network. The user as character in both time and space of virtual world. In the story world and you are affecting story world and narrative.