An accessible piece questioning the compatibility of games and stories. Can usefully be read by replacing the points he makes about games to any fully interactive work.

Click the title to follow the link.

And the only response I could find on the internet, a great defence of the genre:
Fussing Over Foss

Did anybody catch the BAC Directors’ response the following week? And any thoughts on this?

In any form of interactive storytelling the audience will derail rather than cooperate with a scripted plot.

• www.pause-effect.com/excerpts_p03.html (in reference to MMORPRGs).

I disagree. Any thoughts?

Very in-depth and paper about interactivity in general - interactive works, interactive views, ‘play’, etc.

Fascinating and useful - if slightly dry.

Electronic Book Review

A site full of articles (loosely) about the philosophy, debates, and art of making and playing games - mostly computer games.

Provides a good way of thinking about elements of this project, lots of ideas, and a useful set of terminology.

(I’ll link to specific articles later on)

Interesting depiction of how they worked.

• See also en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choose_Your_Own_Adventure

This is an interview with Director and Writer, published by the Royal Court: http://cdn4.libsyn.com/royalcourttheatre/The_Author_Mixdown.mp3

I'm looking forward to seeing this.