RE: Just to spur some discussion

1998-11-19 Thread Jed Hartman
Delighted to see people posting here again. I had something relevant to post last week, but didn't get around to it, and seem to have temporarily forgotten what it was... John wrote: What I still grapple with is how to ensure that all possible outcomes lead up to an equally satisfying

RE: Just to spur some discussion

1998-11-19 Thread John D. DeCuir
Some more thoughts follow. I'd like to chart out all possible ways of creating a nonlinear story... if you see a recipe that I've left out here, please go ahead and add it. 1 - The most primitive way of doing nonlinearity is to create N storylines and choose between them via a random number

Re: Just to spur some discussion

1998-11-18 Thread Alan Taylor
Hi, I saw this too, and must admit it got me thinking - however, in the ST universe, it seems as if every person is very intelligent and imaginative from the very start. What a great presumption for a storyteller! If assume your audience has some intelligence, you can leave all kinds of