This site seems relevant to the interactive fiction thread:

   http://www.gamestudies.org

> Now maybe it is not that strange, after all, that the authors of
> Wizardry and the Squeak reference sheet are one and the same...

Nor is it strange that "Squeak and MUDs" is a frequently asked question 
around here.

> > method execution as cloned prototype context
> > objects (got that? ;-).
>
> That was a true enlightenment moment for me in the original Self
> paper. Very cool from an implementor's point of view! (But I wouldn't
> have understood it from your short description!)

He, he... that was the point I was trying to get across. If the author 
has total control (less in a book since the reader can go back and 
forth at his own pace, more in a movie for even on a VCR or DVD it 
isn't really convenient to pause or go back) then a single 
miscalculation of the "right flow" can be fatal.

To be fair, I watched the "Self; The Video" again last night and I 
doubt anyone on this list would have a problem with it. My test 
subjects were not programmers and don't know Smalltalk.

-- Jecel