Comments on: Map of Woe http://grandtextauto.org/2004/12/06/map-of-woe/ A group blog about computer narrative, games, poetry, and art. Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:43:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: ErikC http://grandtextauto.org/2004/12/06/map-of-woe/comment-page-1/#comment-9731 ErikC Tue, 07 Dec 2004 05:34:03 +0000 /?p=596#comment-9731 thank you, greatly enjoyed that. thank you, greatly enjoyed that.

]]> By: Matt K. http://grandtextauto.org/2004/12/06/map-of-woe/comment-page-1/#comment-9723 Matt K. Tue, 07 Dec 2004 01:55:08 +0000 /?p=596#comment-9723 This is my second semester in a row using this assignment, and it has worked out well both times. Others are certainly welcome to borrow from it, just as I initially borrowed from Andrew's mapping exercise. CYOAs are more familiar to my students than any other cybertext objects, so I suspect it's empowering (or something) for them to be able to apply the high-falutin' theory to artifacts they remember from their childhood. It's also a reliable way to demolish the "electronic/procedural literature is just a CYOA with links" meme. The assignment comes with a choose-your-own-deadline: they can hand it in to me at any point in the semester. That aspect of it has been less successful, at least this time around: perhaps nostalgic for a false sense of closure, most waited until the very last minute to turn it in. ;-) This is my second semester in a row using this assignment, and it has worked out well both times. Others are certainly welcome to borrow from it, just as I initially borrowed from Andrew’s mapping exercise. CYOAs are more familiar to my students than any other cybertext objects, so I suspect it’s empowering (or something) for them to be able to apply the high-falutin’ theory to artifacts they remember from their childhood. It’s also a reliable way to demolish the “electronic/procedural literature is just a CYOA with links” meme.

The assignment comes with a choose-your-own-deadline: they can hand it in to me at any point in the semester. That aspect of it has been less successful, at least this time around: perhaps nostalgic for a false sense of closure, most waited until the very last minute to turn it in. ;-)

]]> By: Academy of Harvested Discourse http://grandtextauto.org/2004/12/06/map-of-woe/comment-page-1/#comment-9703 Academy of Harvested Discourse Mon, 06 Dec 2004 17:06:40 +0000 /?p=596#comment-9703 I Loved Choose-Your-Own-Adveture Books
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The calamities (and triumphs) that can be reached from the beginning of Edward Packard’s 1979 Choose-Your-Own-Adventure book The Third Planet from Altair are fully mapped by Greg Lord, as his justifiably proud professor …

]]> By: Zen of Design » Choose your own adventure maps http://grandtextauto.org/2004/12/06/map-of-woe/comment-page-1/#comment-9701 Zen of Design » Choose your own adventure maps Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 /?p=596#comment-9701 <pingback />[...] ed books for our interactive entertainment. And we liked it! This guy liked it enough to <a href="http://grandtextauto.org/2004/12/06/map-of-woe/">map one out</a> (found via <a href="http://grandtextauto.org/2004/12/06/map-of-woe/">Gr [...] [...] ed books for our interactive entertainment. And we liked it! This guy liked it enough to map one out (found via Gr [...]

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