Hypertext
Selected Rants, Raves, and Writings by Dylan Kinnett
- Text Adventures that Go Beyond
- One of these text adventures takes a new approach to the old experience, and another pushes the medium towards a limit that could suggest its future direction.
- Open the Pod Bay Doors: Conversational Interfaces in an Epistolary Literary Style
- A look at two hypertexts: one game and one visual novel, that tell their stories in a conversational way.
- Bandersnatch, Hypertext, and the State of Interactive Stories
- Interest in non-linear storytelling is rekindling. Two months ago, the Black Mirror studio released an interactive, non-linear movie called Bandersnatch on Netflix. The choices aren’t merely about what should happen next, but also about the mood, style, and even the meaning of the story that unfolds.
- Aleatory Writing Experiment
- An experiment, after Bernadette Mayer, to systematically eliminate the use of certain kinds of words or phrases from a piece of writing.
- The Death of Hypertext?
- Does anyone write literary hypertexts anymore? Are the existing tests future-proof?
- Algorithmic Avant-Garde
- Evaluating Hypertexts
- Ergodic Literature
- Its odd. there’s a way to mass-produce something like a toy castle, complete with catapult, court and cavelier–but they won’t make books in boxes.