I think that, rather unusually, you've used the wrong words here Andy.

Interactive fiction seems a prefectly sensible phrase to describe a wide
range of things, including games, audience participation theatre and so
on. However, I agree completely about the problem you're referring to
wrt pacing and story control.

Finding the proper word is tricky here - I think perhaps we could agree
that 'interactive storytelling' is an oxymoron so long as we carefuly
note that the context is computer related and so 'interactive' has a
somewhat different meaning than it might have in stage circles. 


tim
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