Choose Your Own Adventure

Choose Your Own Adventure is a series of books where the reader chooses different paths as they go through the story. For instance:

You're friend says "we should follow that man, he looks like he was up to no good!" This sounds dangerous? Do you want to:

• Follow the man (go to page 204)
• Ignore the man and go to arcade (go to page 143)

On the laptop this would be an environment to build stories like this, probably in the browser. And of course collaborate on them and all that fun stuff. This has been done before (links to examples?) -- sometimes fully collaboratively (anytime you can add a new choice or follow a choice that hasn't been filled out), sometimes more limited.

We're thinking about working on this in the Chicago Interest Group.

Art

Should it be possible for creators to add images to their stories? Could be a nice way to add a more visual artistic side to the program.

Relationship to Hypertext Fiction

The "Choose Your Own Adventure" concept can be seen as a limited form of Hypertext Fiction, for which there may be tools already available. It could be a useful related field to look into, at least.