an effort toward this, as well…

bliss

Lewis LaCook

It all depends on what the art is. With these simultations, I think most of the authorship effort will be spent on creating the rules… and the reader/player will mostly be learning about the world through interaction with the rules and mechanisms of the game.. rather than through a story, per se..

Instead of reading a story that succinctly summarizes an aspect of the human experience, the reader will have to distill insights from the events by themself, which may take longer, but which may also be deeper and more rewarding.

I could maybe see that alts are more useful fine-grained, because you never want to repeat coarse-grained content (even alt’ed) because the lack of input from interactivity becomes too obvious.

First, what would that be??

Second, will that be interesting at all?

I believe that current systems are very far from this position. In the same time, I believe that this position would not give interesting artforms. In a sense, pure drama does not exist: a pure drama would contain only actions, but any drama contains descriptions, dialogs, etc.

Thanks for pointing out that the small size of the grain is correlated with the possibility of building “alternates”. I am currently designing the text generation module of IDtension… it reminds me to use several alternates, event in a prototype version!!