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NewsBeyond One Billion - 4chan in 2012 Pin
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NewsOne Book, Many Readings - A data scientist looks at Choose Your Own Adventure books Pin
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Interactive gamebooks started to appear in the late 70s, around the same time that Interactive Fiction popped into existence with Colossal Cave Adventure (which begat Zork and, in turn, Infocom). Whether in paper or electronic form, these games all hinge upon movement through a set of static locations: pages in the book, or ‘rooms’ in the text adventure. And from any one of these locations you can move to a new one based on a set of fixed rules. This sort of locations-and-transitions structure is known in computer science jargon as a finite state machine. So if the CYOA books are just another FSM, it should be possible to use some of the same techniques to examine their structure.
You are standing in an open field west of a white house. GOTO page 54.
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NewsCan Software Build Character? Pin
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